Name: MHST Parent Workshop - Helping Your Child with Anxiety
Start: 2026-05-18T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-18T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Beverley Children's Centre

MHST Parent Workshop - Helping Your Child with Anxiety

Understand how to recognise anxiety and what is maintaining it. How to respond to anxious behaviours and help children manage their anxiety.
About this Event

Key Learning:

· Understanding anxiety

· How anxiety presents in young people.

· Thoughts, feelings, and behaviour cycle.

· Different forms of anxiety.

· Anxiety is a response to perceived danger and trying to protect us (faulty fire alarm analogy).

· Fight flight freeze response.

· The maintenance of anxiety.

· The cycle of avoidance and habituation.

· Safety seeking behaviours and reassurance seeking.

· Responding to your child’s fears.

· Coping skills for managing anxiety in young people.