Anxiety Coach

Course objectives

• Understand how a well-honed theory of parenting (what you need to repeatedly do) can assist parents to manage children’s worries
• Create awareness about how some misguided policies are making parents and children more anxious
• Understand more about the brain, including how the pre-frontal middle cortex and the amygdala operate, and where fear and anxiety originates
• Recognise commonly misused phrases and cognitive distortions used by children and their peers
• Learn helicopter view of what risks we can allow and which require us to keep children safe.
• Recognise ‘Traps and trip wires’: what to do when a child’s amygdala starts to play-up
• Learn memorable strengthening sayings, questioning strategies and mindfulness exercises

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