Anxiety in Children
$49.00
Introductory
Online
Course Abstract
Anxiety in Children is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE) course that focuses on behavioral interventions for children with anxiety disorders.
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, it is estimated that 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children but are often not diagnosed. Untreated anxiety can lead to substance abuse, difficulties in school, and depression. Professionals who work with children, including speech-language pathologists, mental health professionals, and occupational therapists, frequently encounter anxiety disorders among their young clients.
This course is intended to help clinicians recognize and understand the anxiety disorders that frequently occur in children and learn a wide variety of communication and behavioral strategies for helping their clients manage their anxiety. Included are sections on types and causes of anxiety disorders, strategies for prevention, evidence-based treatments, techniques for helping children manage worry, relaxation techniques for use with children, and detailed discussions on school anxiety and social anxiety.
Course #40-51 | 2020 | 73 pages | 25 posttest questions
Learning Objectives
- Identify symptoms of various anxiety disorders that occur in children
- List strategies for preventing the development of anxiety disorders in children
- Identify the major treatment options for childhood anxiety disorders
- Describe practical strategies to help children manage worry
- Identify techniques that can help children manage and reduce anxiety
- Describe approaches for helping children with school anxiety and social anxiety
Course Directions
This online course provides instant access to the course materials (PDF download) and CE test. The course is text-based (reading) and the CE test is open-book (you can print the test to mark your answers on it while reading the course document).
Successful completion of this course involves passing an online test (80% required, 3 chances to take) and we ask that you also complete a brief course evaluation.
About the Author(s)
CE Information
Counseling
Professional Development Resources (PDR) has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5590. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. PDR is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0135 - Note: New York counselors will receive 4 continuing education credits for completing this self-study course).
Marriage and Family Therapy
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Professional Development Resources is also approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP #5590); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB #1046, ACE Program); the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0100 - Note: New York MFTs will receive 4 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course); the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (#114); and is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Occupational Therapy
Professional Development Resources is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course provider ID# 3159. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.4 CEUs, introductory level, OT Service Delivery]. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
School Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
Speech Language Pathology
Introductory Level | 0.4 ASHA CEUs | ASHA credit is available until 01/31/2026. ASHA CEUs are awarded by the ASHA CE Registry upon receipt of the monthly completion report from the ASHA Approved CE Provider (#AAUM5165). Please note that the date that appears on ASHA transcripts is the last day of the month in which the course was completed.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.
Social Work
Professional Development Resources, #1046, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/12/2022 - 6/12/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW-0664 - Note: New York social workers will receive 4 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course). Professional Development Resources is also approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678).
Teaching
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for all programs and content. Professional Development Resources is also approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP #5590); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB Provider #1046, ACE Program); the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA Provider #AAUM); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA Provider #3159); the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR Prior Approval Program); the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145), State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0135) and marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0100), and the State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW-0664); the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (#114) and State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678); and is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Customer Testimonials
Very practical information and very helpful!
I appreciate the number of strategies and techniques offered! Good job!
Well written and organized. I learned a lot about childhood anxiety.
I felt that the course was not only informative, but offered a lot of practical applications.
Thank you, I really enjoyed this course. A portion was reviewing skills and information I had at my fingertips several years ago when I worked exclusively with children. And I find that many of the skills are easily transferable to help the many adults I currently work with who struggle with anxiety issues as a result of COVID-19 and the year-plus lockdown we're still coming to terms with.
More Testimonials
This is a great course! I love how all the courses I have done with PDR are relavant and practical!! Thank you for putting out such helpful material.
I found this course very informative and will use this information to help me treat my clients properly.
I am really glad I took this course. So helpful personally and professionally.
This course was very thorough and presented innovative strategies for helping children to manage anxiety.
Very clearly written and nice to have the speech therapist's perspective, too. Good use of scripts and very practical techniques and suggestions. Thanks.
Great, practical ideas! I will definitely be using these in the fall. Especially love the IEP accommodations and ideas.
Easy to follow material and very organized.
Very informative and applicable! Thank you!
I learned a lot from this course and highly recommend it to my peers.
Loved this course - lots of very good information!
Helpful suggestions that can be incorporated into my practice.
This is a great presentation of significant information vital in today's world! Thank you.
Excellent course! All educators should take this course!
Very good course for a very important subject in all work experiences and personal experiences.
Excellent course! I am working with an Elementary-school aged student who has severe anxiety. So many practical ideas and suggestions in this course!
I know so many children, teens and adults looking for solutions to reduce anxiety. This course gave me many ideas.
Excellent materials. Provided helpful and useful information and intervention strategies that I will be able to implement with the students, teachers, and parents that I serve.
Excellent information. Learned a lot. Helpful tips.
This was an absolutely wonderful course. The information and how it was presented makes it extremely practical, doable, and beneficial to clients/students.
This course was an excellent update of the current information available to health care workers in the field. Excellent resources were cited for further review.
Great course. This will not only help me at work, but at home with my own children.
Helpful strategies provided for parents and therapists to use with children experiencing anxiety.
I enjoyed this course! Thanks for making it interesting!
Great course with good information and excellent strategies to implement. Thank you!
Great reminders in working with children and families. Thanks!
Anxiety is so prevalent right now among school aged children. This was a comprehensive course that covered both attributes, interventions and it's impact.
This was an excellent course. I will use this for my clients (and my own children who have some symptoms). Since anxiety is so pervasive, the course offers me good ways to speak to my friends about their children in a stressful world. I also liked the way the test language was structured - no double negatives, etc. Thanks. Good job.
Love the presentation and the illustrations to go along with it. Well done!
I especially appreciated the many examples and concrete strategies provided by this training. As a psychologist trained in CBT, although I knew a lot of the material, it was still very helpful to read and review the case examples and suggestions. Thank you!
Planning to use this information during parent & faculty training.
Very thorough and well organized - will use materials again.
Information in this course is also beneficial in providing insight and strategies that can be incorporated into care for all age groups, not just children.
This is one of the best CEU courses I have taken. Lots of reseach-based information with practical strategies. Excellent!
I think the information in this course will be useful in educating parents of children in our clinic.
This course was very well organized and presented.
Excellent class. By taking this course, i was able to recognize some of the behaviors on social and school anxieties that my kindergarten show. I also acquired and learnt techniques to help them cope with their anxieties. It was a great course and I really appreciate that it was offered.
This course is well written, comprehensive and organized. It provides very practical, useful and timely strategies and techniques to be used with kids considering the very chaotic world we live in today. This information is also relevant for adults.
I loved this course and all of the helpful charts and examples.
This course provided excellent information for dealing with children and adults with stress/anxiety issues.
I really liked how I could have the test as I was reading the material. It helped to absorb more of the information.
This course was extremely informative with many excellent suggestions.
This course had evidence-based data and strategies that are consistent with prior research I've done. Additionally, it provided new and practical examples and strategies to use in practice. It was a great read. Thank you.
Very interesting information. Examples very helpful. Would recommend to others.
Great course. I can apply this inside or outside of the clinic.
Wonderful CEU course provider!
I enjoyed this class and found it helpful. I appreciated the practical applications and strategies offered.
I really enjoyed this CE. I am a school based therapist and I can apply a lot of these interventions to my day to day work. Thanks!
Very resourceful information that can be implemented immediately.
Really enjoyed this course and found it very helpful. I learned a lot more practical strategies than I typically do in a continuing education course! Thank you!
A lot of great information was included that I can use everyday with the children I work with.
Outstanding coverage of the issues and treatments.
I loved the quotations with specific examples of what to say in certain situations. A lot of continuing ed courses give general recommendations, but I thought the quotations were especially helpful. Great, great course! I took lots of notes and plan to print these and put them into a binder to reference for my own children and my OT preschoolers.
Today's children seem to be experiencing anxiety much more than previous generations. This was a good course with useful information that can help these students to feel more comfortable and confident.
Excellent information presented. I truly enjoyed this course!
