Help For Anxious Child

Behaviour Therapists note that previously the main behaviour challenges that parents had to address in terms of child behaviour were helping their child with managing anger, tantrums, sibling rivalry, attention-seeking/connection-seeking behaviour, etc.

However, Behaviour Analysts have now come to recognise that nowadays children presenting with anxiety is a problem that so many parents are looking to address. There appears to be a significant increase in the number of children who are presenting with anxious behaviour.

Parenting style has changed over the years & parents by nature try to shield their children from everything negative, for e.g. panicking in case they fall, overreacting when they do, etc. This is completely understandable but studies from the field of Behaviour Analysis show that children pick up on the anxiety & worry that their parents are displaying around a situation & they then are programmed to think that it is a situation that is more dangerous than what it is &…

That They Won’t Be Able To Handle It If This Thing Happens.

Child Therapists highlight that this instills learned anxiety in the child & each time they experience a situation such as this, it creates more anxiety.

It is important that children are aware of dangers. However it is also important that children are taught that they are strong & resilient & that they are able to handle the things they face in life. If they learn that they are strong & resilient when they are small & that their parents are not able to protect them from everything but most importantly

That They Are Able To Handle It

& if this is reinforced by their parents when they are young, then this will give them a great foundation to be able to more confidently meet any obstacles or situations they are faced with when growing up & as adults.

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