Anxiety, Sensory Integration and Working Memory

Anxiety disorders are the most common of all child and adolescent mental health disorders. It is estimated that approximately 10 percent of children aged 13–18 have a diagnosable anxiety disorder.

This talk is going to focus on identifying and responding to childhood anxiety. It with try to make sense of children’s anxieties and fears from a developmental framework and explore its various manifestations as well as some ideas for intervention will be elucidated. Further exploring the relationship between working memory and anxiety, how both working memory and anxiety can affect children with reading difficulties and then discuss practical ways of supporting working memory and anxiety in children, in the classroom context. And lastly focus on the influence a child’s sensory system has on anxiety and the emotional well-being of the learner in the classroom.

SACE allocates 5 points for this course

Bellavista SHARE is a SACE Provider: 11363

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