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How To Help Children Handle Stress & Anxiety Elise N. Banks, M.S., LPC About Your Speaker Healthy Mind Successful Life Miss International 2015 NAMI National Ambassador Current Work Objective For Today How To Scan Your


  1. How To Help Children Handle Stress & Anxiety Elise N. Banks, M.S., LPC

  2. About Your Speaker • Healthy Mind – Successful Life • Miss International 2015 • NAMI National Ambassador • Current Work

  3. Objective For Today • How To Scan Your Child’s Environment For Potential Stressors • What Behavioral Signs To Look For In A Stressed Or Anxious Child • Three Key Strategies To Help Children Handle Stress & Anxiety / Ways To Eliminate Environmental Stressors

  4. Scan The Child’s Environment • Family Life • Stable? • Parental Involvement? • Sibling Relationships? • School Life • Social Group? • Competitiveness • Peer/Teacher/Parental Pressures? • Extracurricular Activities • Balanced? • Add Value?

  5. Behavioral Signs • Out-of-Character Behaviors • Agitation and Distress • Seeking Reassurance • Avoidance • Inability to Focus • Physical Complaints • Reluctance / Refusal to Participate • Perfectionism

  6. Strategy #1 “The 3 R’s” Recognition of Symptoms Recognition of Stressors Response

  7. Strategy #2 “Vent – Coach – Intervene”

  8. Strategy #3 “ERB” Eliminate – Replace – Boundary

  9. Questions? Elise N. Banks, M.S., LPC Healthy Mind – Successful Life EliseBanks.Therapy@gmail.com

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