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Clinician Offers Parents and Teachers Tools to Recognize and Manage Anxiety in Children and Teens
Summary
Elise Riak, an outpatient mental health clinician, told attendees at a community symposium that anxiety is the most common concern she sees in children and teens and that parents and school staff can learn simple techniques to help students manage it.
Elise Riak, an outpatient mental health clinician, told attendees at a community symposium that anxiety is the most common concern she sees in children and teens and that parents and school staff can learn simple techniques to help students manage it.
Riak said the goal is to “feel that uncomfortable emotion for the shortest amount of time with the least amount of pain and suffering,” and she stressed that "That it's okay not to feel okay sometimes." She described common physical, cognitive and behavioral signs—stomachaches, headaches, sleep and appetite changes, negative self-talk, withdrawal or outbursts—and urged caregivers to investigate changes in performance or…
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