The Challenges of Anxiety—How You Can Support Your Child [presentation]
Dr. Natalie Pon, CHC’s adolescent psychiatrist, presents practical strategies and tools to help parents manage and support their child’s anxiety. Read more ›
Mental Health & Wellness
Building Bridges Between Mental Health and Learning Differences: Discussion and Q&A with CHC Experts [video]
Watch this Facebook Live discussion and Q&A session on learning differences and mental health, featuring three of CHC’s renowned clinical experts. Read more ›
The Paradox of the Mother-Teen Daughter Relationship: Interactive Panel [presentation] [video]
Jenna Borrelli, an adolescent therapist at CHC, speaks about improving communication skills and managing conflicts in the mother-daughter relationship. A facilitated panel discussion follows the presentation. Read more ›
Fostering Happiness Habits in Your Teen [presentation] [video]
Scientific research has turned its focus on how happiness can be sustained and even increased. Research has confirmed that through intentional practices, we can actually change the neural pathways of our brain to become happier. In fact, only 10% of our happiness is due to our external circumstances and a full 90% is based on our inner environment! Learn how to foster happiness habits in your teen with Project Happiness Founder and CEO, Randy Taran. Read more ›
EdRev Expo 2018 Workshop: The Music of Mental Health & Well-Being [presentation]
Jared Leaderman, PhD of Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto explores the many dynamic ways that music making can both promote mental health and therapeutically address experiences of anxiety, depression, and heightened stress. The workshop is also grounded in contemporary neuroscience as a way to highlight the holistic and integrative potential of music based modalities to foster wellness. Read more ›
The Neurobiology of Stress in Teens & Mindful Pathways to Heal [presentation] [video]
Learn more about how stress can impact a child’s brain and how mindfulness practices can make a positive impact in this presentation by John Rettger, PhD, Director of Mindfulness at Stanford University’s Early Life Stress & Pediatric Anxiety Program. Read more ›
EdRev Expo 2018 Spotlight Session: Learning Differences and Anxiety [presentation] [video]
Robert L Hendren, DO, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and Co-Director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center discusses the frequency with which anxiety co-occurs with ADHD and/or learning disorders. Dr. Hendren explores types of anxiety disorders and reviews assessment strategies and treatment options. Read more ›
EdRev Expo 2018 Workshop: Is It ADHD, Anxiety, or Both? Teasing Apart Overlapping Behaviors [presentation] [video]
In this workshop, Dr. Glen Elliott, CHC’s Chief Psychiatrist and Medical Director and Christopher Harris, MEd, Director of Esther B. Clark School, focus on how behaviors associated with ADHD and anxiety may both occur in the same individual but also can mimic each other, leading to confusion about the best diagnosis and the best treatment approach. Read more ›
Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder and OCD: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment
Interventions shown to be highly effective in treating symptoms of autism are already limited, but the options shrink even further in the presence of anxiety comorbidities, particularly obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Research has been focused not only on identifying a specific anxiety disorder in children and adolescents with autism, but also in distinguishing between the symptoms of each disorder and how to treat each disorder. Read more ›
Anxiety in Teens [web resource]
Founded in 2006, Anxiety In Teens is a non-profit whose mission is to equip young adults with tools and community to advance emotional wellness. The Anxiety In Teens website is the place where teens, college students, and parents can find all things millennial and Gen Z mental health. Anxiety In Teens’ content is for youth and by youth. Read more ›
