The Summit School will be hosting – Understanding Anxiety: Supporting Children in the Classroom and Beyond. With up to one in four children struggling with anxiety the topic is timely and relevant. Parents, educators, counselor, tutors, specialists – those in the home, classroom, clinic and/or community who want more information about understanding and supporting anxious children will benefit from this conference. Attendees will learn about the neuroscience of anxiety, as well as, easy-to-implement tools and strategies for reducing anxiety and increasing self-regulation. Speakers include William R. Stixrud, Ph.D., a clinical neuropsychologist and Jessica Minahan, a board-certified behavior analyst, special educator and author. This conference is open to the public and addresses anxiety in school aged children – elementary through high school.
The Understanding Anxiety conference will be on Saturday, April 14, 2018 from 8:00 am – 3:30 pm at The Summit School, 664 East Central Avenue East, Edgewater, MD for more information or to register click here.
Conference will cover:
- The impact of anxiety on behavior and learning
- Underdeveloped skills associated with anxiety
- Why some students seek negative attention
- 10 questions to ask prior to prescribing a strategy or an intervention
- Why breaks may not be helpful
- Dissecting transitions to reduce oppositional behavior
- Teaching students self-regulation
- Reducing negative thinking towards writing
- Shifting reinforcement systems to increase skill development
Conference participants will be able to:
- List common antecedents for students with anxiety
- Enumerate strategies to promote initiation, persistence, and help-seeking skills, in students with work avoidance
- Identify why common teacher practices and interventions may not always work for students with anxiety-related behavior
- Describe classroom friendly self-monitoring strategies
- List strategies for reducing negative thinking toward writing