stress and anxiety in the life of your child presented by caren baruch-feldman...
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Stress and Anxiety in the Life of Your Child
Presented by Caren Baruch-Feldman
Mamaroneck SEPTA April 15, 2010
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GOALS FOR TODAY’S TALK
1. Understand the Stress Faced By Children
2. Coping Strategies That Can Be Used by Children, Parents, and School Personnel to Combat Stress
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Is Stress and Worry Good, Bad, or Something In Between?
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“The Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal
Performance increases with arousal, but only to a certain point.
When levels of arousal become too high, performance will decrease.
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When Some Concern is Appropriate
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Why Are Children So Stressed? • Pressure to Succeed• Need to Be Good at
Everything • Rushing Children
Through Childhood• Feeling Out of
Control• Parental Uncertainty
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Types of Stress Faced By Children
• School related
• Peer related
• Home life
• Financial
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When Should One Be Concerned About Their Child’s Level of Stress?
• Behaving Differently From Usual
• Avoids Activities That He/She Used to Enjoy.
• Significant Change in School Performance.
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How Can Children Turn Their Worry Into an Appropriate Level of Concern To Feel Better?
(1) Psycho-Educational
(3) Changing One’s Behavior (physiological and avoidance)
(2) Changing One’s Thoughts
No?Yes!
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Understanding Stress and Worry
*Genetic Predisposition *Worry as a Bad Habit *Choose a Different Path
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Changing One’s Thoughts
How One THINKS About A Situation Affects How One Feels.
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Experiment 1 Worried Florida Old Lonely Orange Bingo Conservative wrinkle
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Experiment 2
Picture yourself in the following situation:
You are standing in line at the bank. There are about 50 people around. A robber enters and fires his weapon. You get shot in the arm, but no one is hurt.
Would you consider yourself lucky or unlucky?
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Expecting the Worst ……Worrying
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Changing Ones Thoughts
1) Identify Negative Thoughts.
2) Question and Challenge Those Thoughts.
3) Come Up With More Realistic and Optimistic Thoughts to Feel Better.
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Questions Children Can Ask Themselves
• Where is the evidence that what I am expecting will happen?
• Am I exaggerating? • Am I jumping to conclusions? • Am I focusing just on the bad things? • Is it helpful how I am thinking?
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Changing Behavior: Physical Sensations
• Be A Detective • Change Your Breath
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Changing Behavior: Don’t Avoid
• Facing One’s Fear or Stress
• Manageable and Hierarchical Manner
• Success Breeds Success
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Putting It All Together
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What Parents Can Do
• Sharing One’s Own Experiences • Exercise • Eating and Sleep Right • Be A Good Role Model-Mirror Neurons• Identify Strengths and Talents• Grateful Activity • Journal the Positive