MHST Parent Workshop - Helping Your Child with Anxiety

Key Learning:

· Understanding anxiety

· How anxiety presents in young people.

· Thoughts, feelings, and behaviour cycle.

· Different forms of anxiety.

· Anxiety is a response to perceived danger and trying to protect us (faulty fire alarm analogy).

· Fight flight freeze response.

· The maintenance of anxiety.

· The cycle of avoidance and habituation.

· Safety seeking behaviours and reassurance seeking.

· Responding to your child’s fears.

· Coping skills for managing anxiety in young people.

· Further information/signposting.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher East Riding Mental Health Support Team