As summer draws to a close and the new school year approaches, many children and teens start to feel the familiar jitters of returning to school. While some level of anxiety is normal and even expected, for some students, this transition can be particularly challenging.
Cartwheel recently hosted a webinar designed for parents, guardians, and school staff which reviewed how to recognize anxiety in students and offered specific strategies adults could use to help young students and teens cope with back-to-school anxiety.
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Featured Speakers
Elana Kagan, PhD
Dr. Elana Kagan is a psychologist in the Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Kagan specializes in CBT for children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety, mood, and behavioral disorders. Her research interests center on ways to effectively involve parents in the treatment of anxious youth. She is also interested in the dissemination of evidence-based treatments for anxiety and depression. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at Temple University and completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine/Kennedy Krieger Institute.
