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Avoidance & Anxiety: STOP Accommodating Avoidance!
Discover how to help children overcome anxiety and break the cycle of avoidance with practical strategies. Learn the importance of validating their emotions, offering encouragement, reinforcing coping skills, and providing gradual accommodations when necessary. Empower your child to confront their fears and build resilience.
Creating Calm: Helping Children Harness the Power of Visualization for Anxiety
Discover the transformative power of visualization as a coping strategy for children to reduce anxiety and stress. Learn how to guide your child in creating their own safe place within their imagination, fostering regulation, comfort, and calmness. Explore the benefits of visualization, from soothing emotions to promoting a sense of security.
Grounding Techniques: Reconnecting with the Present Moment and Managing Anxiety
Discover powerful grounding techniques to manage anxiety and find inner calm. Learn how the 5-4-3-2-1 method and the ABC technique can help you reconnect with the present moment, alleviate worries, and foster mindfulness. Explore practical exercises that engage your senses and redirect your attention away from anxiety-inducing thoughts.
Signs and Symptoms of Depression in Children: A Guide for Parents
Recognizing the signs of depression in children can be challenging for parents. This blog post provides a comprehensive guide on the common warning signs of depression in children, including feelings of sadness and hopelessness, changes in appetite and weight, and engaging in self-harm. Learn how to identify depression in your child and understand the available treatment options to help your child lead a happy and healthy life.
CBT for Children’s Anxiety: A Guide for Parents
Learn how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help children with anxiety, depression, and other mental health diagnoses replace negative thoughts with more truthful and helpful beliefs. Discover how CBT strategies can lead to a decrease in distress and significant improvements in functioning, as well as an example of how CBT can help a child with anxiety overcome their fear of presenting in school.
Understanding Anxiety: How to Help Your Child Navigate Their Feelings
Anxiety is a natural response to threats and can be helpful in keeping us safe. But when it becomes overwhelming and out of proportion, it can be a sign of an anxiety disorder. Learn the difference between healthy and helpful anxiety and anxiety disorders and how to support those in need.
The Neuroscience of Anxiety & My Dog Winnie
Anxiety is a natural response to threats and can be helpful in keeping us safe. But when it becomes overwhelming and out of proportion, it can be a sign of an anxiety disorder. Learn the difference between healthy and helpful anxiety and anxiety disorders and how to support those in need.
How to Manage Stress & Anxiety in Children
As a parent, it can be difficult to watch your child struggle with stress and anxiety. These feelings are normal and can be a natural response to certain situations, but when they become overwhelming, it's important to take action. Here are some strategies you can use to help your child manage their stress and anxiety.