Café Scientifique: Running on Empty:
Anxious parents, confident children?
Prof Sam Cartwright-Hatton
November 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
DOORS 7PM | SPEAKER 7.30PM
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Sam Cartwright-Hatton is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on understanding and preventing anxiety disorders and other mental health problems in children, particularly the role that parents can play in shaping children’s emotional development.
- 7:00pm Doors open, bar opens
- 7:30pm Talk starts
- 8:15pm approx Short break followed by Q+A
- 9:00pm Event ends
Running in the Family: Can We Help Anxious Parents to Raise Confident Children?
Why do mental health problems run in families? And, more importantly, can we do anything to stop this? We know that children of parents who have anxiety disorders are at increased risk of developing mental health problems themselves. But what can we actually do about it?
In this session, Prof. Sam Cartwright-Hatton will explore the fascinating science of how anxiety influences the way parents think, feel and behave, and how this might affect the way they respond to their children.
She will share some surprising findings from her research into helping anxious parents raise confident children, and ask whether changing the way we parent could help break the cycle of anxiety from one generation to the next.
