Everything You Need to Know to Help Kids Manage their Anxiety with Renowned Yale Psychologist Dr. Eli Lebowitz

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In today's episode I sit down with child and adolescent psychologist and director of the Yale Child Study Center's Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program, Dr. Eli Lebowitz. We dive into everything you need to know about anxiety in children. We explore what anxiety looks like—from everyday worries to more severe cases—and tackle the delicate balance between being a supportive parent and inadvertently accommodating a child’s fears. Using powerful metaphors, Dr. Lebowitz helps us understand how to recognize and respond to anxiety in ways that truly empower our kids. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! Order your copy of The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans Here: https://bit.ly/3rMLMsL Subscribe to my free newsletter for parenting tips delivered straight to your inbox: https://dralizapressman.substack.com/ Follow me on Instagram for more: @raisinggoodhumanspodcast Dr. Eli Lebowitz's BOOK Sponsors: Understood: Give today to join a community dedicated to empowering people who learn and think differently at understood.org/give BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/HUMANS today to get 10% off your first month Saks.com: Findgiftsguaranteedtobringjoytoeveryhard-to-shop-forpersonthisseasonatsaks.com. Dime: Go to DIMEBeautyCO.com now and get 30% off site wide during their early-access to Black Friday! Good Ranchers: Subscribe to any Good Ranchers box and use my special code humans to get a free Thanksgiving ham with your first order plus free express shipping. Goodranchers.com Bobbie: Shop any of Bobbie's Starter Bundles to see why 500,000 families choose Bobbie! Right now, you can get 10% off your first subscription order of Bobbie's Organic Infant Formula PLUS free shipping on all subscription orders for the duration of your feeding journey by using code RAISINGGOODHUMANS10 at Hibobbie.com code RAISINGGOODHUMANS10 for 10% off your first subscription order. Offer valid for first-time customers only through 12/31/24. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.8	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:12.0	I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman, and I just, I want to take a collective breath with everyone.
0:19.8	I know it's been such a week and here we are. And one of the
0:26.2	things that I want to talk about is anxiety. But actually, I've enlisted Dr. Ellie Liebowitz from the
0:35.0	Yale University Child Studies Center. And the reason I did is because his focus is both as a researcher and a clinician
0:43.2	is on childhood anxiety disorders and the effects that they have on the family systems.
0:49.9	And the most incredible thing about his work and why this is a two-part episode is it is
0:56.5	absolutely asking nothing of our kids.
1:01.6	So it helps us distinguish between the kinds of anxiety that we think can actually cause harm
1:08.0	that are really prohibitive.
1:09.9	And he gets into that and how to distinguish between typical and sometimes quite beneficial
1:15.4	anxiety and the kind that is prohibitive and needs help.
1:21.5	And then he's also incredibly concrete in the program that he created to help support parents so that they can
1:29.1	support their kids and that the family can therefore thrive more.
1:33.3	So we're getting into this in two episodes and the first part is going to really help
1:40.3	the parent and caregiver understand and think about the challenges that we're constantly
1:47.0	facing when we have kids who are tending to avoid anxiety-provoking situations, the rage that can
1:54.8	sometimes come along with that, the deep empathy and fear that can come along with that,
2:00.8	all on the part of the parents.
2:02.0	So the great news is he developed a highly researched, efficacious program that does not
2:11.3	include anything that kids have to do.
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