What can I do to prevent my child from developing an anxiety?

What can I do to prevent my child from developing an anxiety?

Charles Sophy (Private Practice in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) gives expert video advice on: How prevalent are anxieties and phobias in children?; What is the professional treatment for a child with phobias and anxieties?; What can I do to prevent my child from developing an anxiety? and more...

As a parent, you must realize that your child is an individual, and if they have the predisposition to have an anxiety, they will have it. As a parent, the best thing to do is to be able to have an open mind; know yourself well enough that if you have anxieties, you are not putting them onto your child, and that you're not modelling ways to behave when you worry or you double-check things. So self-awareness for a parent can prevent children developing anxieties. And then being able to have open communication with your child, to say or show you that they feel anxious or scared, and that they will get some guidance from you if they do open up about anxiety.