[Audio] BT16 Workshop 35 – Why Calming Down is Not Enough: Active Strategies to Help Anxious Kids and Parents – Lynn Lyons, LICSW

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• Archive: Topic Areas:Anxiety | Children's Therapy | WorkshopCategory:Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2016Faculty:Lynn Lyons, LICSWDuration:2:41:37Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Dec 11, 2016 Description Description: When children and their parents are in the grips of worry and stress, it feels overwhelming and mysterious.

• Anxiety is a very persistent master; when it moves into families, it takes over daily routines, schoolwork, bedtime and recreation.

• To make matters worse, the things adults (including many therapist and school systems) do to help and console anxious children actually make the anxiety stronger.

• This workshop teaches concrete strategies that normalize worry and put families on offense rather than defense.

• The goal is not the elimination of symptoms, but the ability to respond and react to worry in a different way.