Presenter: Candis Cousins, PhD
When: April 17, 2015 (Friday)                          
Time: 12:30 - 2 p.m.

Although we commonly think of anxiety as something which should be diminished, optimal levels of anxiety are essential for attachment, survival, and learning. Chronic levels of fear and anxiety, however, can be detrimental to normal brain development in children. As we grow, the capacity to handle anxiety develops. As we progress through the grades, school makes increasing demands upon us to contain anxiety. Test anxiety, although not traumatic, can undermine self confidence, authentic learning and lead to school avoidance and depression. Recommendations will be presented for lessening test anxiety, particularly in high school. This discussion will draw upon literature, research and clinical material.

Candis Cousins, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychologist with a practice in Oakland.  Dr. Cousins has worked with children and their families for the past forty years. Trained in the Tavistock method, she is a member of the Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy Group. She is on the editorial board offort da, a journal of the Northern California Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology. She has published articles on work with parents, diagnosis of learning disabilities, couples' dynamics and poetry criticism.  

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