Reducing Anxiety in Children aged 4-14 Years: FEARless Free Zoom Webinar for Parents 6.9.2022

Laois Education Centre in partnership with the Triple P Parenting Programme are delivering a Fear-Less webinar on Wednesday 6th September from 7-9pm which will offer Parents of children 4 - 14 years of age tips and strategies to help their children manage their anxiety and provide practical evidence-based tips for parents and carers in these uncertain times. (This is a repeat webinar)

Parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic is a unique challenge for all parents, caregivers and families. Children and parents are anxious, and families are under pressure like never before.  Being a parent to a child/teenager who isexperiencing anxiety can be tough.
Anxious children / teenagers can seek constant reassurance have outbursts of anger / frustration  and can feel sick when worried.  Parenting has a crucial role to play in mitigating the potential long-term negative impacts of COVID-19 on children, particularly in relation to mental health.

Learning objectives:

An evidence based effective and efficient parenting intervention addressing childhood anxiety designed to empower parents to take on their role as the most powerful agent for change for all their children. Seminar aims to take the worry out of anxiety for the whole family.

Fear-Less seminar teaches parents key components for decreasing childhood anxiety:

•      Anxiety: What is it and how does it develop
•      Promoting resilience in children
•      Modelling and the way children think
•      The way you behave: Avoidance and exposure
•      Parental strategies for responding to children’s anxiety
•      Constructive problem solving – how to promote it and maintaining gains

Registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uuQ8QRjNQUyoFJyoRkXdFw