Discoveries Lecture Series: Growing Up Brave: Strategies for Helping our Children Face their Fears and Live Happier and Healthier Lives

Speaker: Donna Pincus, associate professor of psychological and brain sciencesDr. Donna Pincus will present a Discoveries lecture on topics covered in her book, Growing Up Brave.With social and academic pressures at an all time high, one in five children today suffer from a diagnosed anxiety disorder, and many others go undiagnosed. More children than ever are being prescribed psychotropic drugs. Dr. Pincus demonstrates that excessive anxiety is manageable and even preventable when parents learn how to identify and understand it, and to respond by using convenient and simple parenting techniques.

When 7:00 pm on Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Location Hillel House, 213 Bay State Road, 4th floor
Contact Name BU Alumni Association, Sarah Speltz
Phone 617-353-5261
Contact Email alumni@bu.edu