Viva Brighton Issue #66 August 2018

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FEATURE ........................................... Confidence tricks How not to pass your anxieties on to your children Climbing trees, swimming in lakes, getting lost on bicycles… those unsupervised adventures we have in childhood often create the best memories for us as adults. Yet modern parents are much less likely to let their kids take these risks. Overprotecting children may mean they suffer fewer broken bones, but could lead to them entering adulthood with little experience of how to handle challenges. A new clinic, called Flourishing Families, has been set up in Brighton to help prevent parents and carers from passing their anxieties – and avoidance behaviours – down to their children. University of Sussex clinical psychologist Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton (pictured left) is working with Dr Helen Startup (pictured right) at the Sussex Partnership NHS trust in Brighton to run ‘Raising Confident Children’ workshops for people with mild or moderate anxiety disorder who also have children aged between two and eleven. “We know that anxious parents tend to overprotect their children,” says Sam. “They see all the dangers in the world. But overprotecting children can undermine their confidence.” “Mental health problems run in families, particularly anxiety disorders. Children are very good at absorbing these anxieties, whether they are phobias about spiders, or a fear of social situations that would eventually stop them from having a fulfilling adult life.” The key part of the workshop, the first of its kind in the UK, is to encourage participants to adopt and share with their children what Sam calls The Seven Confident Thoughts: 1. The world is a fairly safe place. 2. I can cope with most things. 3. Bad things don’t usually happen to me. 4. Bad things don’t usually pop up out of the blue. 5. I have some control over my life. 6. Most people are pretty nice, really. 7. Other people respect me. “If you can help your child to believe these things, then this will help them to grow up confident,” says Sam. “For parents, this will involve not overreacting to dangers, showing yourself coping well with scary situations and praising children for effort rather than being perfect.” Parents with particular phobias are encouraged to find another adult who can give more positive messages. “Most phobias are not the result of a traumatic incident but learned from another adult with that fear,” points out Sam. She also reminds parents that children have high levels of self-preservation, and that if allowed to take small risks when young, will become good at risk assessment. “It’s rare that children lose their lives through being too adventurous. That’s why those stories make the news.” Jacqui Bealing The workshops, run over two sessions, a week apart, are available to all parents about to receive, or who are currently receiving treatment through the Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service and have at least one child aged 2-11 years old. The clinic will also soon be available in East Sussex ....93....
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VIVA B R I G H T O N #66. AUG 2018
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JOIN SUSSEX’S FAVOURITE SUMMER HO
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CURATOR’S CITY ..................
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Independent 3 screen cinema Restaur
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ADVERTORIAL A Call to Adventure! Ha
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