This week on the Where Parents Talk podcast, host Lianne Castelino speaks to Anna Housley Juster, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinician about calming strategies to address anxiety in kids.
ANNA HOUSLEY JUSTER
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinician
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
Early Childhood Education Consultant
Former Director of Content, Sesame Street
Author, How to Train Your Amygdala
Mother of 2
“I think it’s really important that, as the science catches up with human evolution, and as like daily practitioners and parents and teachers catch up with the science that we give kids the language to understand not just what happens in their bodies, but what happens in their brains, which is where what happens in their bodies starts right so we can help them understand that behaviours don’t come out of nowhere, and their feelings have a origin in the brain.