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Parent Coaching for Anxiety

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Social-Emotional Learning ^Extra-curricular/At-Home All Ages Strategy

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Anxiety

Parent Coaching for Anxiety

Parent coaching can help students with diagnosed anxiety face their fears.

How To Apply It!

  1. Parents play a key role in the effective development of children with anxiety.
  2. Parent training helps parents find the important balance between creating a supportive nurturing environment to make children feel secure and pushing kids out of their comfort zone to face their fears.
  3. Parent coaching is specifically for the parent, not the student. Parental coaching involves helping parents understand the reasons for their child's fears and how to most effectively support them. Cognitive behavior therapy is often the recommended treatment for children and adolescents.
  4. When selecting a parent coach, select a certified professional who has completed training from an accredited institution.

Why It Works! (the Science Of Learning)

Parent coaching programs for anxiety are relatively new and research is ongoing to understand if they provide incremental benefits over child therapy, specifically cognitive behavior therapy. While this is still a field that is being researched, early studies suggest that training parents can have a positive effect.