Helping Your Child Face Their Fears and Worries | Mental Health Webinar

For parents watching a child struggle with fear and anxiety can be overwhelming. Learn strategies and tactics to provide support in this webinar.
If you or a loved one is seeking more information on mental health support:
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If you or a loved one is experiencing a crisis, please call or text 988, available 24/7
- The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), a non-profit organization, leads in education, training, and research for anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, OCD, and co-occurring disorders. ADAA also provides free evidence-based mental health information and resources to the public.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:27 Is a child's worry typical?
5:03 Overcoming school refusal with kids
6:50 Teen fear of vomiting
10:15 Play therapy as an intervention
12:05 Child refusal of anxiety
13:20 When activities get harder
15:52 Child fear over reprimanding
17:33 Approaches for younger children
21:30 Strategies for a child in an anxious moment
23:07 Overcoming fear in a sport
24:27 Encouraging community involvement
26:55 Golden rules for parents
30:00 How counselors can help anxious children
31:20 Advice for grandparents of anxious children
33:08 Bullying
35:19 Advice for kids with one or both parents not in their lives
39:18 Repetitive dark dreams
40:50 Anxiety and school refusal for teens
44:16 Authoritarian parenting
45:50 Puberty or anxiety?
49:43 Avoiding bedtime
52:58 Sleep-away camp and OCD
55:40 Talking to a child about seeking help