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Parenting Strategies for Young Children with Anxiety – The SPACE Method
December 18, 2024 at 7 p.m. (live)
December 19, 2024 at 2 p.m. (recorded)
Presented by Gitty Gordon, MA, Doctoral Candidate
This webinar will equip parents and early childhood providers with evidence-based strategies from the SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) program to help young children overcome anxiety. Participants will learn to recognize and identify common symptoms of anxiety, including behavioral and emotional indicators, and understand how these symptoms manifest across different developmental stages.
The session will also cover family accommodation, its role in maintaining anxiety, and provide practical techniques to reduce these accommodations. By adjusting responses to anxious distress and implementing systemic changes in parent-child interactions, participants will learn how to foster a supportive, adaptive environment that boosts a child’s confidence, increases resilience, and reduces family stress.
Gitty Gordon specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD, depression, severe emotional dysregulation, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, as well as comorbid learning and emotional challenges. She has extensive training in CBT and DBT and takes an integrative stance to treatment, drawing on her psychodynamic training and incorporating mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches; play therapy; and attachment-focused work as appropriate.
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Cannabis & Tourette Syndrome: The Evidence, The Promise, & The Perils
January 29, 2025 at 7 p.m. (live)
January 30, 2025 at 2 p.m. (recorded)
Presented by Dr. Elia Abi-Jaoude
Cannabis has garnered significant interest as a potential treatment for Tourette Syndrome, but uncertainty and confusion remain about its effectiveness. This FREE webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of the current evidence regarding cannabinoids for managing tics, including when cannabis might be considered as part of a treatment plan. Attendees will gain insight into the potential benefits and risks, as well as practical considerations around the various products and methods of administration. By the end of the session, participants will have a clearer understanding of how cannabis may fit into the broader management of tics.
Dr. Elia Abi-Jaoude is the Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, where he leads the Provincial Pediatric Tics and Tourette Clinic. He holds an MS in Neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal, an MD from the University of Manitoba, and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Toronto. Dr. Abi-Jaoude also works at the Tourette Syndrome Neurodevelopmental Clinic at Toronto Western Hospital, specializing in developmental neuropsychiatry. His research spans neurobiology, psychopharmacology, cannabinoids, and functional tic-like behaviors.
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