WALKING ALONGSIDE YOUTH - AN ONLINE ANXIETY COURSE​

Session 1
Understanding Youth with Anxiety

This session will provide you with information about anxiety and describe how you can safely and respectfully support youth through your relationship with them.

The session explores the possible roots of anxiety for youth in care and encourages culturally safe, relational responses. We hope that in gaining deeper insight into anxiety you will be empowered to walk alongside the youth in your care, while considering their identity, culture and family. A relational response is especially important for Indigenous youth who come from traditions of healing that are holistic and place-based, and that focus on relationship and interconnectedness as essential to restoring balance in body, mind, heart and spirit.

Learning Outcomes

On completing this session, you should be able to:

  • recognize symptoms of anxiety, including thoughts and behaviours commonly associated with anxiety
  • identify possible sources of anxiety for youth in care who have unmet needs and who have experienced unwanted changes, disruption and unsafe situations
  • look beyond symptoms to identify unmet needs of anxious youth in care

'It's your path but you don't have to walk it alone.'


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