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Flourishing in Adolescence: How to Support Recovery and Wellbeing in Adolescent Anxiety

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12 months

Format

Online Webinar

Duration

1 hour

Presenter

Dr. Leila Masson

This webinar provides an overview of anxiety during adolescence caused by changing internal and external environmental factors.

It discusses the four pillars of health (nutrition/diet, physical activity, sleep, environmental factors) and their importance in restoring adolescent mental health conditions such as academic and social anxiety.

It introduces predictive markers and assessment needs and provides nutritional and phytotherapeutic strategies to recover and restore health.

We are excited to have Dr. Leila Masson, an integrative environmental medicine clinician and expert wellness researcher on adolescent anxiety to discuss the following:

  • An overview of adolescent anxiety and its impact on academic performance and social development
  • How to make a clinical assessment of adolescent mental health caused by climate exposure
  • What the predictive markers are
  • And how nutrition, physical activity, sleep and environmental factors play a role in adolescent recovery after anxiety

MEET YOUR PRESENTER

Dr. Leila Masson

MD, MPH, FRACP, FACNEM, DTMH 
Dr. Leila Masson is a Sydney based specialist paediatrician and author of “Children’s Health A-Z” a parent’s guide to natural therapies for common childhood ailments. She specialises in nutritional and environmental medicine for children’s health issues, including allergies, asthma, behavior problems, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD. She sees patients at her clinic in Tamarama and mentors doctors in integrative paediatrics. She received her medical doctorate from the Free University of Berlin and did her paediatric specialist training at the University of California in San Francisco. She received her Master in Public Health from Harvard University and her Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Masson has worked in the US, Europe, New Zealand, and volunteered for 2 years setting up a rural clinic in Pakistan.