Guest Speaker: Lisa Damour, PhD

How do stress and anxiety operate under everyday conditions and at heightened times of concern and disruption? Come learn from an expert. Dr. Lisa Damour will teach us how to keep pressure and tension from reaching toxic levels and she will coach us on how to support our children in cultivating these skills. We can learn to develop reliable strategies for coping with ongoing tension.
Lisa Damour, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, teacher, speaker and consultant. Dr. Damour writes the monthly Adolescence column for the New York Times and is a regular contributor at CBS News.  She serves as a Senior Advisor to the Shubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University and as the Executive Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls.  Dr. Damour is the author of two New York Times best selling books:  Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood and Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls.