Working With Children With Anxiety
2022 Summer Course
Understand how Anxiety presents itself, the impact on the whole child & strategies that be implemented in the classroom
Welcome to Working With Children With Anxiety. We are delighted that this course has been approved by the Department of Education and Skills for your EPV days.
This course includes:
After taking this course you will:
| Understand the key psychological components of anxiety |
| Be aware of the symptoms of anxiety in a typical child |
| Appreciate the immediate & long-term effects of anxiety on a child |
| Understand the importance of appropriate therapy for the anxious child |
| Be introduced to effective exercises that can safely and easily be implemented |
This course come highly recommended as a Summer Course for teachers. Here is what the 2020 Summer Course Inspector said:
“This is a course of substance and there is substantial substance in it. It was engaging, evidence-based & jam-packed full of strategies.“
DES Inspector, 2020
Here is what our past students have had to say:
Nadine, Primary School Teacher
“I have enjoyed this course every minute of this course. To be honest, the layout and your teaching style makes this the Netflix of all summer courses – I just don’t want to turn it off.”
Aoife, Primary School Teacher
According to Mental Health Ireland (2019), 1 in 10 children in Ireland suffers from mental health difficulties, particularly anxiety and depression. Suicide and self-harm rates are among the highest in Europe and the numbers are increasing year on year. At the same time, we have longer waiting times for access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services so many children and their families have to manage their issues without appropriate intervention. This often leads to mayhem within classrooms where children act out their emotions and interfere with the learning of others, leaving teachers feeling ill-equipped to manage the situation.
Working with children from the perspective of understanding their experience, no matter where their anxiety stems from, means that teachers can provide a quality of teaching that is unparalleled in terms of contributing to a long-lasting impact. Tailoring lesson plans to be more empathetic and responsive to the needs of the child means that they will be more engaged and therefore want to learn more.
This is an intrinsically valuable tool because research shows how education and knowledge can be a buffer for anxiety in children and is likely to lead to better outcomes, despite their background. The leadership within schools must incorporate an empathetic perspective and this has to begin somewhere. After participants engage in this course, they will be equipped with the knowledge of how to work with and appreciate the complexities of children with anxiety, and they can then share this knowledge. This means that their school can implement this innovative ethos with all staff, thus improving the lives of so many more students. As such, teachers’ engagement in this course will directly improve their practice in relation to teaching, learning and assessment in working with children with anxiety.
This course is ten hours of audio content, visual content and assessment in total, and there are ten hours of recommended reading and resources for you to further develop your own learning.
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
- Understand the key psychological components of trauma
- Be able to identify the different types of trauma
- Be aware of the symptoms of trauma in a typical child
- Know the neurobiology of trauma
- Have a good understanding of how the brain responds to trauma
- Have an awareness of how the body responds to trauma
- Appreciate the immediate & long-term effects of PTSD on a child
- Understand the importance of appropriate therapy for the traumatised child
- Know how to support children who have experienced trauma
- Be introduced to effective exercises that can safely and easily be implemented
Your Instructor
Lorraine Lynch
Lorraine Lynch the CEO and Founder of the Child Psychology Institute. With a background in health psychology and social innovation, her passion is empowering parents and those working with children through education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychological Studies and English, a Higher Diploma in Psychology and a Masters of Science in Health Psychology. Lorraine is also the author of two books, developed to promote children’s wellness – #100happydays4kids and Closing Saor’s Day.
