Supporting Students Who Are Worried and Anxious: Practical Tools for the Classroom

Type:
  Video
Duration:
19 minutes
Presented by:
DMH + UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence
Featuring:
John Piacentini, PhD, ABPP and Domenique Harrison, MA, MPH
Series:
Educators Overcoming Under Stress
Relevant categories:
Behavioral Health Child Anxiety Education
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Overview

As students and teachers prepare for the upcoming school year, school communities will be adjusting to significant anxiety, stress, and trauma experiences. Here to discuss how teachers, parents/caregivers, and students can learn to identify and respond to anxiety symptoms and provide strategies to help combat stress in students is Dr. John Piacentini from the http://carescenter.ucla.edu.

Recorded on: 7/30/2020

  Keywords: anxiety, classroom, COVID-19, social emotional learning, stress, support, teaching
  Public link for sharing: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=1780&k=1597441643  
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Learning objectives

  • Identify the common symptoms of anxiety in students
  • Define specific worries students have returning to school this year
  • Apply different tools to combat stress and anxiety in students

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