The digital recording will be released to all participants on the 2nd Sept 2023. The recording and associated resources will then be accessible through your Essential Therapy Training account for 365 days.
When the world feels like a scary place: Essential conversations for anxious parents and worried kids – Dr Abigail Gewirtz
The digital recording will be released to all participants on the 2nd Sept 2023. The recording and associated resources will then be accessible through your Essential Therapy Training account for 365 days.
Decades of research show that parenting practices are associated with children’s resilience (and conversely with risk for behavioral and emotional problems) and that parenting is malleable. That is, evidence-based, effective parenting interventions change parenting practices and create cascading effects across the family system: improved parenting strengthens parental and child mental health, and family wellbeing. Parental anxiety (and depression) is strongly associated with an offspring’s risk for anxiety (and depression) but most treatment for childhood anxiety focuses on children alone. Yet effective parenting – and specifically, effective emotion socialization – reduces children’s risk for anxiety, and helps children learn to regulate and respond to ‘big’ negative emotions. Read More
TRAINING information
Decades of research show that parenting practices are associated with children’s resilience (and conversely with risk for behavioral and emotional problems) and that parenting is malleable. That is, evidence-based, effective parenting interventions change parenting practices and create cascading effects across the family system: improved parenting strengthens parental and child mental health, and family wellbeing. Parental anxiety (and depression) is strongly associated with an offspring’s risk for anxiety (and depression) but most treatment for childhood anxiety focuses on children alone. Yet effective parenting – and specifically, effective emotion socialization – reduces children’s risk for anxiety, and helps children learn to regulate and respond to ‘big’ negative emotions. Read More
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives:
- Identify three ways in which nature and nurture affects children’s risk for anxiety
- Help parents identify and respond to their own emotion regulation challenges
- Identify the importance of emotion coaching and distinguish negative and positive emotion socialization
- Learn to teach parents how to have conversations with their children about anxiety-provoking issues
About the Speaker
Dr. Abigail Gewirtz is a child psychologist, mother of four, and leading expert on helping families cope with trauma. She has devoted her career to research on how to improve outcomes and resilience in children who experience stress, and help guide parents addressing tragic events and difficult subjects with their children.
Gewirtz is a Foundation Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. She is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Psychology, an ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science, and Fellow of both the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. She has consulted for national and international organizations including the U.S. Congress and UNICEF. She has developed award-winning parenting programs and is the author of more than 100 publications. Dr. Abi has conducted research in the United States, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and has been invited to speak widely, in the U.S. and across the world, on parenting in times of stress.
Abigail Gewirtz’s book When the World Feels Like a Scary Place: Essential Conversations for Anxious Parents and Worried Kids – is available from Amazon now.
CPD/CE
CPD / CE / NBCC credits available: 3
How do I receive these credits?
The participant must pass the multiple-choice test with a minimum score of 80%. There is a maximum of three attempts to achieve this.
The post-test is included in the price of the training.
Does my regulatory body accept the credits?
The CPD & CE credits awarded can be used towards your declaration to any governing regulatory body in your state or country, provided the content is relevant to your discipline.
Our trainings are accredited by:
– The CPD Group, London
– Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
– Australian Counselling Association
– National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)
