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REDUCING ANXIETY & BUILDING RESILIENCE

PARENTS will learn:

1. An overview of how a well-honed theory of parenting(what you need to repeatedly do) can assist parents to manage children’s worries.
2. Coverage of how some misguided policies aremaking parents and children more anxious.
3. The brain,including how the pre-frontal middle cortexand the amygdala operate, and where fear and anxiety originates.
4. Commonly misused phrases and cognitive distortionsused by children and their peers.
5. A helicopter view of what risks we can allow andwhich require us to keep children safe.
6. ‘Traps and trip wires’: what to do when a child’samygdala starts to play-up.
7. Memorable strengthening sayings, questioningstrategies and mindfulness exercises.

SKILLS IN 2-12 YEAR OLD CHILDREN