Anxiety: An Often Overlooked Trigger For Behavior

Anxiety can send kids into a fight, flight, and freeze state that can trigger a behavioral reaction. This can look like avoiding social situations, shutting down, yelling, arguing, talking back to parents and teachers, or being physically aggressive. Children with anxiety are often in a heightened state which makes them feel “on edge” or hypersensitive to their environment.

Oftentimes kids with anxiety can have disproportionate reactions to everyday problems, which can be mistaken for non-compliance, defiance, opposition, rudeness, or even laziness. Dr. Ross Greene, a renowned psychologist who specializes in oppositional behavior famously said, “Kids do well if they can.”

Join guest presenter, Meredith Gleason, M.S., Licensed Educational Psychologist with Achieve Concierge, to learn more about anxiety’s impact on behavior and tools you can use at home or in the classroom to help support children with oppositional behavior that is rooted in anxiety.

This is a FREE VIRTUAL workshop. RSVP required.

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Meredith Gleason is a multi-award-winning, Licensed Educational Psychologist (LEP #3847) who has an office in San Diego and Temecula to support families in the Southern California area. She provides diagnostic testing, counseling, social skills groups, parent coaching and executive functioning support. Meredith has almost 20 years of experience working with students ranging from preschool to college age. She has worked throughout Southern California from Los Angeles to San Diego. She began her educational career as a teacher and has worked for over a decade as a school psychologist. She is passionate about empowering students and their families by identifying individual learning profiles to increase emotional well-being and academic experience.