Helping Children Who Struggle with Anxiety

It will also cover what types of things contribute to symptoms of anxiety starting and what kinds of things make it worse. Finally, ideas of how to best help kids who struggle with anxiety will be reviewed.

Dr. White is currently the Clinical Director of the Sendan Center’s Autism and Behavioral Services. She completed her master’s degree in applied behavior analysis at the University of the Pacific (2000) and doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Binghamton University (2005). She currently works with clients in British Columbia, Washington, and Alaska providing home and school consultation to children with developmental disabilities and disruptive behavior disorders as well as office and home-based cognitive behavior therapy for children with anxiety disorders. She has presented the results of her research and clinical work at professional conferences such as the Association for Behavior Analysis and the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy on topics ranging from interventions to improve employee motivation to techniques to improve acquisition rates in children with autism. She has also presented several workshops on behavior management techniques to parents, school personnel, and health care professionals.