About this Conversation
What do young people need in their toolbox to successfully cope with stress, anxiety, and daily challenges? Join us for a TEDMED Conversation with Anne Marie Albano, a cognitive behavioral therapist who specializes in studying and treating anxiety and mood disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults, as she discusses these critical skills and the role adults play in fostering them.
We discuss:
Youth anxiety disorders pre and post COVID-19 pandemic:
-Prevalence
-Factors that changed
-Role of school as a support system
-Common worries youth experience
Factors that promote improving youth mental health:
-Caregiver participation in youths’ development/therapy
-Shifting focus to childhood exploration
-Role of community Tools kids need in their emotional toolbox:
-Problem solving
-Self soothing
-Social skills
-Psychological flexibility
Resources:
1. Effective Child Therapy. https://effectivechildtherapy.org/
2. Anxiety Canada. https://www.anxietycanada.com/learn-a…
3. Anxiety & Depression Association of America. https://adaa.org/
4. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. https://adaa.org/
References and Related Research:
1. Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties. https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Adult…
2. You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family life. https://www.amazon.com/You-Your-Anxio…
3. Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of covid-19: challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020…
4. Age of opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence. https://www.amazon.com/Age-Opportunit…
5. Cognitive behavioral therapy, sertraline, or a combination for childhood anxiety. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056…
6. Parent-Based Treatment as Efficacious as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety: A Randomized Non-inferiority Study of Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…
7. Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: a narrative review to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality. https://link.springer.com/article/10….
8. Do youth anxiety measures assess the same construct consistently throughout treatment? Results are…complicated. https://link.springer.com/article/10….
9. International consensus on a standard set of outcome measures for child and youth anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33341…
10. Impact of treatment improvement on long-term anxiety: Results from CAMS and CAMELS. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33705…
11. Adolescence as a pivotal period for emotion regulation development. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34781… 12. Psychological flexibility and inflexibility as sources of resiliency and risk during a pandemic: Modeling the cascade of COVID-19 stress on family systems with a contextual behavioral science lens. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32834…
About Anne Marie Albano
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Anne Marie Albano is a prominent psychologist and a leading expert in understanding and treating anxiety in children and teenagers. She is a Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University and founded the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders. Her work has significantly influenced how mental health professionals treat anxiety, particularly through the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Anne Marie’s research has focused on finding the most effective ways to help young people with anxiety. She has led many major studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to compare different treatments, including CBT, medication, and a combination of both. Her research has provided valuable insights into which treatments work best for young people struggling with anxiety. Beyond her academic work, Anne Marie is dedicated to making her knowledge accessible to families. She co-authored the award-winning book, You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family Life, which offers practical advice for parents. The book won awards from both the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Through her clinical practice, research, and publications, Anne Marie has become a key figure in improving the lives of children and families impacted by anxiety.
