Beyond Worry: Understanding Anxiety – Recognition, Evaluation, and Treatment
Join us for a live webinar event, "Beyond Worry: Understanding Anxiety – Recognition, Evaluation, and Treatment," with expert speaker Kimberly Erlich, MSN, MPH, CPNP-PC, PMHS, CIMHP.
Registration: $40 (recording available post live event)
Date & Time: Wednesday 6/18/25 2:00 pm ET
Contact Hours: 1.0
REGISTER BY 06/16
Are you seeing more children and adolescents presenting with anxiety? Learn about practical tools to help pediatric clinicians confidently recognize and address anxiety disorders across the developmental spectrum. Age-appropriate screening methods, diagnostic insight, and evidence-based interventions—focusing on cognitive strategies that can be used in everyday clinical settings will also be covered.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the “continuum of worry” within the developmental context.
- Compare three common anxiety disorders in children/adolescents.
- Select appropriate screening and evaluation tools for anxiety based on patient age.
- Discuss cognitive strategies that can be used to help pediatric patients with anxiety.
About the Presenter: Kimberly Erlich, MSN, MPH, CPNP-PC, PMHS, CIMHP
Kimberly Erlich is a pediatric nurse practitioner and pediatric mental health specialist practicing in general outpatient psychiatry and in a day treatment program for children and adolescents with eating disorders.
She is also a consulting associate faculty member in the pediatric nurse practitioner program at a top school of nursing program, where she develops and teaches pediatric behavioral health curricula. She holds a Nutritional Psychiatry certification and regularly integrates those treatment strategies into patient care.
We're looking forward to seeing you online! Contact info@pncb.org for questions.