Live Webinar: Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. EST

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This webinar will provide an overview of pediatric anxiety, emphasizing developmental considerations in diagnosis and treatment. Review common anxiety disorders, learn to select age-appropriate screening and evaluation tools, and explore evidence-based treatment approaches. While medication interventions are reviewed, the session offers a focused approach to cognitive strategies to support children and adolescents with anxiety.

• Speaker: Kimberly Erlich, MSN, MPH, CPNP-PC, PMHS, CIMHP
• Cost: $40
• CE Credit: Attendees earn1.0 NAPNAP contact hour.

Learning objectives for this webinar include:

1. Differentiate anxiety disorders from fear or worry that is developmentally appropriate in the pediatric population.
2. Describe age-appropriate methods to screen and evaluate children and adolescents for anxiety disorders.
3. Distinguish between three common anxiety disorders in children.
4. Discuss evidence-based treatment strategies for pediatric patients with anxiety.

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 a day treatment program for children and adolescents with eating disorders. Combining her expertise as a consulting associate faculty member who develops and teaches pediatric behavioral health curricula at a top nursing school with her certification in Nutritional Psychiatry, she integrates these treatment strategies into her patient care. Her work includes co-authoring two papers: “Picky eating or something more? Differentiating ARFID from typical childhood development,” Journal for Nurse Practitioners (2024) and “The Weight of Body Image,” American Family Practice Nursing Journal (2023; panel and poster presentations at NAPNAP (2025, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019); and multiple presentations on behavioral health topics including anxiety, depression, psychopharmacology, and eating disorders. She has provided leadership and consultation to design and implement a clinical quality improvement project integrating behavioral health services into primary care in the largest private health system in Northern California. She also spent nearly a decade providing clinical care in child neurology at an academic medical center. She received her Master of Science in Nursing degree from Yale University and holds a Master of Public Health degree in Maternal and Child Health from Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine.



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