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This brief video-lecture focuses on the role of parents in helping children and adolescents to overcome anxiety disorders. The lecture discusses some of the dilemmas faced by parents of anxious children and the ways in which a child’s anxiety may impact parents or the family system. A model for supporting an anxious child is discussed and the lecturer offers practical tips for parents of anxious children. Also discussed is the challenge of cooperation between two parents in the context of a child’s anxiety.

This brief video-lecture introduces behavior therapy for child and adolescent anxiety disorders. The lecturer first presents an overview of the principles of gradual desensitization and exposure and response prevention and then provides practical guidelines for planning and executing effective exposures.

This brief video-lecture presents an overview of interventions effective in treating child and adolescent anxiety disorders. The strategies discussed include cognitive interventions such as cognitive restructuring, somatic skills such as relaxation and emotion based techniques such as the use of competing emotions. A separate segment describes behavioral interventions including desensitization and exposure and response prevention.

This brief video-lecture presents an overview of anxiety including the cognitive, behavioral, emotional and behavioral aspects of the anxious response. The anxiety disorders commonly manifested in children and adolescents are described and epidemiological data about their prevalence is discussed.