Tackling childhood anxiety with Anne Marie Albano

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What do young people need in their toolbox to successfully cope with stress, anxiety, and daily challenges? Join us for a TEDMED Conversation with Anne Marie Albano, a cognitive behavioral therapist who specializes in studying and treating anxiety and mood disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults, as she discusses these critical skills and the role adults play in fostering them.
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• Tackling Youth Anxiety
We discuss:
Youth anxiety disorders pre and post COVID-19 pandemic:
-Prevalence
-Factors that changed
-Role of school as a support system
-Common worries youth experience
Factors that promote improving youth mental health:
-Caregiver participation in youths’ development/therapy
-Shifting focus to childhood exploration
-Role of community
Tools kids need in their emotional toolbox:
-Problem solving
-Self soothing
-Social skills
-Psychological flexibility
Resources:
1. Effective Child Therapy. effectivechild...
2. Anxiety Canada. www.anxietycan...
3. Anxiety & Depression Association of America. adaa.org/
4. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. adaa.org/
References and Related Research:
1. Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties. www.amazon.com...
2. You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family life. www.amazon.com...
3. Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of covid-19: challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. psycnet.apa.or...
4. Age of opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence. www.amazon.com...
5. Cognitive behavioral therapy, sertraline, or a combination for childhood anxiety. www.nejm.org/d...
6. Parent-Based Treatment as Efficacious as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety: A Randomized Non-inferiority Study of Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. www.sciencedir...
7. Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: a narrative review to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality. link.springer....
8. Do youth anxiety measures assess the same construct consistently throughout treatment? Results are...complicated. link.springer....
9. International consensus on a standard set of outcome measures for child and youth anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. pubmed.ncbi.nl...
10. Impact of treatment improvement on long-term anxiety: Results from CAMS and CAMELS. pubmed.ncbi.nl...
11. Adolescence as a pivotal period for emotion regulation development. pubmed.ncbi.nl...
12. Psychological flexibility and inflexibility as sources of resiliency and risk during a pandemic: Modeling the cascade of COVID-19 stress on family systems with a contextual behavioral science lens. pubmed.ncbi.nl...