A nationwide survey reveals that between six and ten percent of Canadian children suffer from some form of anxiety. This is the fastest growing mental health concern that is ironically caused by anxiety in parents.
Dr. Brenda Kenyon, director of the University of Guelph’s Center for Psychological Services, suggests:
anxious parents, and to a lesser extent exposure to violent video games, and less tolerance in society for displays of emotion, are largely to blame.
Fortunately, medicating an anxious child is not the answer and instead:
“In all childhood anxiety disorders, there is a 70 per cent success rate for cognitive behavioural therapy,”
