Parents and caregivers
​In our Parenting your Anxious Generation workshop, you will learn and practice the concrete, specific strategies to help you get your child through their anxious emotions and behaviors.
By the end of this course, you can expect to:
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have a clear understanding of what can cause, maintain and (importantly!) reduce your child's anxious feelings and behavior.
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know what to say (and not say!) when your kid is worrying, expressing fears, refusing to do something because they are too anxious or nervous, etc.
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know what to do (and not do!) to help them increase their bravery, independence, and self-efficacy.
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feel confident in your ability to set limits and boundaries that fit the needs of your whole family.
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Parenting your Anxious Generation workshop FAQs:​
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Q: Why are parent workshops helpful for child and adolescent anxiety?
​A: It turns out that, although you likely did nothing to cause your child's anxiety problems, you can do a lot to help them resolve their anxiety problems. In fact, research shows that you can do this even without your kid's active participation. In our workshop, you'll learn how!
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Q: Would it be more effective to send my child to a well-trained therapist?
A: First, we love well-trained child therapists! So, yes, it is a good idea for your child to work with one. And it is still a good idea to join our workshop -- because the best child and adolescent anxiety therapists will need you, the parent, to learn and use certain skills and strategies. In our course, you'll learn them and give yourself (and your child) a major jump-start to anxiety management. And, you'll be doing it at a considerably lower per-session cost compared to therapeutic appointments!
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Q: What research is behind this workshop?
A: We know that lots of you have heard about Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Anxious Generation." We have, too, and we will touch upon some of his assertions and ideas in this workshop. But our Parenting your Anxious Generation workshop draws more precisely on the researched-back clinical work of Eli Lebowitz. He and his colleagues at the Yale Child Study Center created an intervention called SPACE, which stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. It is a parent-based intervention for treating child and adolescent anxiety and it's strategies - the very ones you'll learn in our workshop - have been well-researched and shown to significantly reduce problems associated with:
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Separation Anxiety
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Social Anxiety
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Fears and Phobias
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Selective Mutism
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Generalized Anxiety
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
To learn more about the SPACE model, watch this Ted Talk or visit www.spacetreatment.net
Parenting your Anxious Generation
Workshop
Interested in our next workshop series? Let us know below!
Parenting your Anxious Generation Training Workshop
Groups are held once a week for 5 weeks via Zoom.
​Fees: $300 per family ($60 per session) + processing fees
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This is a skills-based educational workshop. It is not a therapeutic group. The course is open to any parent or caregiver of an anxious child, regardless of where you live. By purchasing a ticket to this workshop series you are stating that you understand that the Parenting your Anxious Generation Parent Training Workshop is not therapy.