School Anxiety: How to Help Your Child
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Does your child or teenager experience school anxiety? How can you encourage them to stay engaged in school without making their anxiety worse? Join our hosts, Ginger Nicholson and Jake Sparks, LMFT, as they discuss how to identify the signs of school anxiety and if your child’s nervous system is dysregulated. Jake advises on how to respond with empathy, provide emotional support, and co-regulate with your child.
Blogs for Parents:
https://bit.ly/fear-of-school-in-teens
https://bit.ly/teenager-refuses-to-go-to-school
https://bit.ly/teen-school-shooting-trauma
https://bit.ly/does-school-cause-depression
https://bit.ly/how-to-parent-a-teen-with-anxiety
Books for Parents:
https://monadelahooke.com/brain-body-parenting/
Videos for Parents:
Eating Disorders: Tips for Supporting Teens and Young Adults
How to Improve Teen Mental Health
Yoga for Teen and Adolescent Mental Health
About our Hosts:
Jake Sparks is a Marriage and Family Therapist who has spent the last decade working with often suicidal adolescents and their parents in their journey toward health and healing. During this time, Jake has been a clinician and Clinical Director of several adolescent programs, and is currently the Treatment Director at Embark BH, where he gets to work with the some of the nation’s best and brightest clinicians. Jake’s approach to therapy is centered on the role of relationship and attachment in the context of families. He believes that when authenticity and vulnerability are met with acceptance and empathy people thrive!
Ginger Nicholson, MBA, is the Director of Sales Enablement at Embark Behavioral Health. She is a parent to one 20-year-old daughter.
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Submit your questions to: askatherapist@embarkbh.com
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