Recognizing and Treating Problematic Fear and Anxiety in Children

UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES) Director, Dr. John Piacentini discusses the difference between age-appropriate and problematic anxiety in children, including how to recognize the warning signs of problematic anxiety and how it is treated.

How to Raise Kids Who Can Overcome Anxiety

Via a TED Talk (2020) Youth Anxiety Psychologist Anne Marie Albano shares her own personal journey with fears, stressors, and phobias and how she has built a career that analyzes the “why” behind childhood anxiety. Her work now centers on Cognitive Behavioral Exposure Therapy to help children and families grapple with anxiety and build sustained resilience.

How Parents Can Help with Child Anxiety

UCLA Center for CARES Director, Dr. John Piacentini and CARES Clinical Psychology Fellow, Dr. Diana Santacrose suggests ways that parents can help their child manage feelings of stress and anxiety.

Getting to Know Your Brain: Dealing with Stress

Introduces what stress and anxiety are, where they come from, and different ways of coping with them including how to create and use a “stress catcher.” Also discusses how the brain works in teenagers and why this is such an important time of development.

Guided Visualization: Dealing with Stress

Dr. Krystal Lewis, a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher in the NIMH Intramural Research Program, explains how the brain handles stress and leads a guided visualization activity to improve relaxation when feeling stressed.

GREAT: Helpful Practices to Manage Stress and Anxiety

Brief video highlighting helpful practices to manage stress and anxiety. GREAT was developed by Dr. Krystal Lewis, a licensed clinical psychologist at The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Brain Basics: Anxiety for Kids

Highlights how anxiety and stress work in your brain as well as some tips and coping strategies that can help manage anxiety.

Irritability in Children – Dr. Ellen Leibenluft

Dr. Ellen Leibenluft, NIMH Emotion and Development Branch, discusses research on irritability in children.

Mental Health Minute: Stress and Anxiety in Adolescents

A 60-second video about stress and anxiety in adolescents.

When Anxious Children Become Anxious Adolescents

Dr. John T. Walkup of Cornell University and the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York discusses the unique issues in treatment of adolescents who have struggled with anxiety for an extended period.

When Back to School Anxiety Lingers

UCLA Center for CARES Director, Dr. John Piacentini and CARES Clinical Psychology Fellow, Dr. Diana Santacrose talk about the feelings of fear and anxiety that often come up around back to school and how caregivers can recognize them.

Y2Y Teens Discuss Stress, Anxiety and Mental Health

Youth to Youth teens discuss everyday struggles that revolve around their stress, anxiety and mental health.

Living with Anxiety-Young Minds

Youth to Youth teens discuss everyday struggles that revolve around their stress, anxiety and mental health.

My Social Anxiety

A teen speaks about her social anxiety and how cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) helped her.