Preventing Anxiety in the Children of Anxious Parents

Duration: 14 mins Publication Date: 11 Sep 2023 Next Review Date: 11 Sep 2026 DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24646

Description

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Fiona Challacombe discusses her co-authored CAMH journal paper ‘Preventing anxiety in the children of anxious parents – feasibility of a brief, online, group intervention for parents of one- to three-year-olds’.

Learning Objectives

1. What is known about anxiety, how it aggregates in families, and how it is transmitted between generations.
2. Why it is important to tackle childhood anxiety and the typical trajectory for children who are anxious and do not receive help.
3. Insight into the adapted online group intervention on parenting skills for anxious parents.
4. Implications of the paper’s findings for child and adolescent mental health professionals and policymakers.
5. Tips for anxious parents.

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CAMH

Paper Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12596

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