What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
This video is discussing the strategies to cope with anxiety in children and teens. This video explained some ways to help teens when they are feeling anxious.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is to deliver information about strategies to help teens or children when they start feeling anxious. Besides, mentioning the strategies, the speaker explained clearly what teens/children who feel anxious about something and what they should do by mentioning several supporting factors such as signs when they start to feel anxious.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The video is from UCSF Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ YouTube channel and brought out by Anna Swan, PhD. Which means the information is trustworthy enough. The speaker is known as the Assistant Clinical Professor in UCSF Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Service (CAS) division. This proves that the speaker understands the topic being discussed, and she also used some articles to support her statements in this video.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
She seems to really support the strategies to cope with anxiety in adolescence. Not only mentioning the way to cope with anxiety, the speakers explained it more deeply with the signs of anxiety itself and how to do the strategies that she has mentioned before. She also said that it is okay/normal to feel anxious, but you cannot settle on that feeling but try to fight it.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Personally, yes. The speaker puts valid and strong arguments because she is graduated, which has something to do with the topic being discussed. Not only that, she supports the key points using some relevant articles that can be seen in the description box in YouTube videos.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
I found an article that may help me to contribute to the topic deeply. This article explores specific emotions regulation processes differentially predict specific anxiety symptoms over time among children and adolescents. Schneider et.al (2018) mentioned the strategies to deal with anxiety in adolescents, they are increasing emotional awareness and the capacity to pursue goal-directed behavior (in the face of negative emotion) and decreasing emotion non-acceptance among children at risk for the development of anxiety disorders may help prevent their anxiety from reaching problematic levels. It also lends support to the emotion awareness, acceptance, and committed action processes targeted in acceptance and commitment therapy and to similar processes targeted in dialectical behavior therapy.
Source: Schneider, R. L., Arch, J. J., Landy, L. N., & Hankin, B. L. (2018). The longitudinal effect of emotion regulation strategies on anxiety levels in children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 47(6), 978-991. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1157757
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
This video is discussing teens’ everyday struggles that revolve around stress, anxiety, and mental health. The video is being spoken by some teens so that the audiences can understand the different ways teens struggle with this matter. The anxiety found in this video are fear, insecurities about appearance, anger, stress, and etc
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speakers’ purpose is to share their everyday life deals with stress, anxiety, and mental health in their teenage life. The speakers here mentioned what kind of stress and anxiety they have and told each their own ways how to deal with these matters. In short, all of the speakers have different stress and anxieties and how they try to struggle with it in their everyday life. They also mentioned the reason behind their stress and anxiety and how they feel/react when the anxiety starts happening to them.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The video is from Youth to Youth International youtube channel and the speakers are some teenagers. The video is kind of interviewing the teenagers about how they struggle with stress and anxiety. I think that the video and the information is quite trustworthy enough, because it is from teenagers who are experienced with stress and anxiety itself.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
I think the interviewers seem to have a slightly sad expression when asked about anxiety problems. They are still teenagers but have a lot of difficult times when they grow up. And here, I found many teenagers have their own ways to deal with their problem, and maybe the parents need to support their children to fight their problem and do not have a lot of pressure on them.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
I think the speakers have strong arguments, they delivered the idea of their personal experiences supporting the key points with the explanation of what they have been through during the stress and anxiety. Not only mentioning the kind of stress and anxiety, they also share what they feel/their body reacts to the stress and anxiety and also the way how they deal with it.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
I found the article with the title The Developmental Processes in Early Adolescence written by Christopher Bonovitz in 2021. This article discusses anxiety that comes up from an early age and the reason why the adolescent experiences it. The writer here studied the anxiety that is happening to Tom (the participant in this study). This study also involved Tim’s therapy; it is known that early adolescents often do not have the emotional language to bridge the past and future, and therefore communication through action and play therapy become more primary modes of expression. In a sense, the adolescent is recruiting the parental figure to manage the projections, engendering reactions, and feelings that he can then observe and probe as he develops the capacity to house them himself.
Source: Bonovitz, C. (2021). The Anxiety of Growing up: The Developmental Processes in Early Adolescence. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 8-21.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1845030
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
This video discusses the parents who find it hard to diagnose anxiety for their children and the speakers provide information about them. She said that the anxiety of children is kind of similar to the anxiety of adults, with the exception of generalization anxiety.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The purpose of the speaker is to provide information about how to diagnose anxiety for the children and deliver the treatment for them. One of the ways to diagnose anxiety is the assessment that is very important to know what kind of difficulty the child’s faces everyday, so that the parents can develop the treatment help for their children. Since she is the Director in Division of Child and Adolescent, she offers help to parents who have difficulty diagnosing their children’s anxiety.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The video is trustworthy enough because the speaker is Moira Rynn, MD. who is known as the Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry New-York Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center. I think that both the speaker and source of the information is really trustworthy, because she is the director of division of child and adolescent so that she is really understanding and educated about the problem raised in adolescence and the knowledge related to it.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speaker seems to agree with the idea that children have similar anxiety with adults but come in different ways. The parents here are also confused about their child’s condition so it is important to diagnose it with the help of the right people who know a lot about this matter.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes she does. It can be seen in her arguments about the diagnosis of child’s anxiety, she also provided the way and how to do it. She also mentioned one example in treating a child’s anxiety and found it’s not working and she has to find out what is missing in the treatment.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
I found the article entitled Clinical practice guideline for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorder that may be relevant to the video above. The article written by Walter et.al (2020), discussed assessment of anxiety providing identification and evaluation about it. This article also mentioned several diagnoses of anxiety in adolescents with medical conditions associated with anxiety include (but are not limited to) hyperthyroidism, caffeinism, migraine, asthma, and etc. The comparative effectiveness of anxiety treatments, delineation of mediators and moderators of effective anxiety treatments, long-term effects of SSRI and SNRI use in children and adolescents, and additional evaluation of the degree of suicide risk associated with SSRIs and SNRIs, are remains for the treatment of anxiety disorder for the adolescents.
Walter, H. J., Bukstein, O. G., Abright, A. R., Keable, H., Ramtekkar, U., Ripperger-Suhler, J., & Rockhill, C. (2020). Clinical practice guideline for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 59(10), 1107-1124.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2020.05.005
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The speaker discussed how social anxiety can manifest itself in children and teens. He stated the information about the symptoms, consequences for both physical and mental health in the children’s life, and etc.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is delivering information and inviting the parents to consider social anxiety in children and teens. In the end of the video, the speaker invites parents if they find signs of social anxiety from their child to be handled properly because otherwise it will have bad consequences for the child’s mentality.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
I think the video and speaker are trustworthy. The video is from MonkeySee YouTube channel and the speaker is Dr. Richard Heimberg. He is known as Director in Adult and Anxiety Clinic, Temple University & Depression Association of America. This proves that he is well-known about this matter since he is the director of the Adult and Anxiety Clinic.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speakers seem to agree that the children who get social anxiety must be diagnosed and treated early because early intervention and treatment can be successful and it may prevent the development of other disorders
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes, I think the speaker made valid and strong arguments. He supports the key point by describing more about the topic and also mentioned some examples to make the ideas strong enough.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
This article explored the present review examines the potential application of this adult cognitive model to the understanding of adolescent social anxiety and considers additional adolescent-specific factors that need to be accommodated. Leigh and Clark (2018) mentioned the factors that lead to social anxiety such as parenting factors, friendship and peer victimisation, and social media use. These findings suggest that Cognitive Behaviour Method, with its emphasis on developing cognitive change via action, is particularly well suited to adolescents, and we anticipate that many of the main features of therapy might be successfully used with adolescents with little modifications.
Source: Leigh, E., & Clark, D. M. (2018). Understanding social anxiety disorder in adolescents and improving treatment outcomes: Applying the cognitive model of Clark and Wells (1995). Clinical child and family psychology review, 21(3), 388-414.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-018-0258-5
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
This video is discussed about Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in children and teens. The children will become worried and start to bring up the physical symptoms of GAD.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is to deliver information about what is GAD and provides symptoms, and strategies of this anxiety disorder especially in children and teens.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
This is an animation video and I think the video has credible and trustworthy sources. This video is from Anxiety Canada YouTube channel which has discussed many videos about anxiety and also has a website about anxiety.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speakers stated that it is normal to be anxious, especially in children and teens but when it becomes more serious in everyday life and uncontrolled, the speakers seem to agree that children are experiencing Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
I think the speakers put strong arguments on this video. She delivers the idea by delivering a story and then analyzing it. She also delivers her idea supported by the article which is seen at the description video.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
I found the article that may be relevant for the video above. The article was written by Nasiri et.al (2020) discusses how to differentiate generalized anxiety disorder from worry. This study revealed that Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a serious and common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive worry and anxiety. It also involved cognitive strategy as the way to deal with GAD. Studies have shown that cognitive fusion strategy is associated with anxiety, health anxiety and anxiety sensitivity and also showed that this strategy is present in people with GAD. Additionally, this study also found out excessive worriers and people with GAD, use this strategy more than excessive worriers.
Source: Nasiri, F., Mashhadi, A., Bigdeli, I., & Chamanabad, A. G. (2020). How to differentiate generalized anxiety disorder from worry: the role of cognitive strategies. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 38(1), 44-55.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-019-00323-5
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
This video discussed how the parents help their children with anxiety. At first, the information given by the speakers is the common fears that may be experienced by the children such as nobody likes them, what if the children do something wrong, and etc. The parents’ role here is to listen to all the fears faced by their children. This video shows what to do and what not to do for the parents who face their child’s anxiety. The speakers also propose strategies for parents to assist their kids in dealing with stress and anxiety. They also mention when parents may choose to seek further assistance for their family.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is to deliver information about what parents can do and don’t do to help and manage their child’s anxiety. The speaker mentioned strategy and best practices as well to parents.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The video is from UCLA Health YouTube Channel which is focused on Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES). There are two speakers, one as the interviewer and the other is the respondent. So for the interviewer, she is Diana Santacrose, PhD. She is part of the Clinical Psychology Fellow, UCLA CARES. While the respondent is John Piacentini, PhD, he is the director at UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience, Education, and Support CARES. Both of the speakers work in the field of dealing with anxiety in children so the information presented in this video is credible and trustworthy enough.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speakers seem to agree that parenting is the most crucial thing when working with kids and treating kids with anxiety. The speakers think that parents’ roles are very important to an anxious child to manage their anxiety such as being a good listener, persuading their child to do positive things, and etc.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
I think the speaker has valid arguments. He mentioned all the things well related to the parent’s role in facing their child’s anxiety. With some examples given by the speakers, it is really helpful and understandable for the audience.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
The article was written by Thulin et.al (2014), discussing the impact of parents’ involvement in the treatment of anxiety disorder in children. Used a meta-analysis in this study, in order to investigate whether parent involvement potentiates the outcome for children with anxiety disorders when treated with cognitive –behavior therapy. The rationale for including parents in the CBT treatment of the anxious treatment is that the parents will learn new and more suitable ways of behaving, which would then enhance the treatment effect.
Source: Thulin, U., Svirsky, L., Serlachius, E., Andersson, G., & Öst, L. G. (2014). The effect of parent involvement in the treatment of anxiety disorders in children: A meta-analysis. Cognitive behaviour therapy, 43(3), 185-200.
https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2014.923928
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
This video is discussed how anxiety keeps adolescents alive, and how worries in their heads affect what they feel in their bodies. This video mentioned reactions to anxiety in teens/adolescents known as 3F or Fight, Flight, and Freeze.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is to deliver information on how our body and mind react to anxiety.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
It is video animation, and the speaker is not found in this video. But I think the speaker is the part of the video on the Anxiety Canada YouTube Channel. So the information is trustworthy enough because they used to deal with this matter and partnership with heretohelp (the mental health organization).
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speaker seems to agree that anxiety is not all bad, it kind of develops into the system to stay alive based on animal ancestor theory. But on the other hand, if anxiety has no immediate life or death threat and keeps your body telling you that it is dangerous, this could be the danger of anxiety.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes, the speaker put valid arguments because she proved the information she delivered with imagination, for example, on the animal theory about anxiety so that we know the speaker is confident with her arguments about this topic.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
This article discussed how an individual reacts to differences in their anxiety/stress. The reactions are known as FFF (Freeze, Flight, and Fight). Based on this article, Freeze is exposure to threat cues – like aversive pictures or threat of shock, freezing affects more complex instrumental behavior, and that individual differences exist corresponding to decreased freezing in aggression and increased freezing in anxiety. Flight of Fight reactions can be seen as active avoidance behavior aiming at preventing or minimizing contact with an acute threatening cue or situation. These expressions proved responses to stress, alterations which may contribute to social and affective psychopathologies.
Source: Niermann, H. C., Figner, B., & Roelofs, K. (2017). Individual differences in defensive stress-responses: the potential relevance for psychopathology. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 14, 94-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.01.002
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
This video discussed how the Covid-19 outbreak increasingly mental health and anxiety among adolescents in the United States of America. This situation may lead to the risks of youth suicide rate massively.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is to inform the audience about the importance of mental health care and how the pandemic leads adolescents to depression and anxiety and persuade the people/parents to help them prevention of increases the suicidal rate. In this pandemic situation, social activities, schools where the teens thought it was a safe place, or public places are closed so that teenagers find it difficult to meet friends or may lose friends. Here, they start to get depressed and do not know what they want to do in their life during this pandemic.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
Both the video and the information are trustworthy enough. There are some speakers in this video, the first speaker is Judy Woodruff, Lisa Horowitz, Tia Dole, Kathy Hoofman are the experts that taking on the mental health of young people in the United States. The second speaker Heather Gard as the respondent to this video information. And the last speaker is Stephany Sy as the reporter. While this video is from PBS NewsHour YouTube Channel.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
Lisa Horowitz as an expert dealing with mental health, has been studied over suicidal risks and seems to agree that this pandemic makes it even harder for young people who struggle with mental health issues when they do not know what they will do when social restricted is enforced.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
The information in this video has strong arguments because it shows participant, Heather Gard who is directly related to the issue, the mother of one of the children who committed suicide described in this video. Moreover, this video provides clear evidence of the arguments presented. For example, displaying a graph about the suicide rate taken from a trusted source.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
I found an article that may be related to the topic but this article was held in China so I want to compare it to whether the situation is the same or the opposite. So this article discussed the correlation factor for depression/anxiety in China’s adolescents after the pandemic lockdown. So, the study found out that there are seven factors during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period that were correlated factors for both depression and anxiety after a lockdown in children and adolescents, i.e., suicidal ideation, quarreling with parents, females, anxious mood, insomnia, depressed mood, and inattention during online learning. Furthermore, missing teachers very much was a protective factor for both depression and anxiety. Age, living in the urban area, not living with parents, and not eating on time were correlated factors for depression but not for anxiety. No special feelings and hopping back to school were protective factors for anxiety but not for depression.
So the situation in China’s adolescents is kind of similar to USA’s adolescents dealing with the pandemic lockdown. Here, the role of the parents is really important to be by their child’s side, knowing the feeling of their child to help the prevention of suicidal rate of adolescents during this Covid-19 outbreak.
Source: Liu, Y., Yue, S., Hu, X., Zhu, J., Wu, Z., Wang, J., & Wu, Y. (2021). Associations between feelings/behaviors during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and depression/anxiety after a lockdown in a sample of Chinese children and adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 284, 98-103.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.02.001