Guest Speaker: Lisa Damour, PhD

Dr. Damour will explain the key to understanding how stress and anxiety operate, both under everyday conditions and at times of heightened concern and disruption. She’ll instruct on how to keep pressure and tension from reaching toxic levels, how to support our students managing stress and anxiety and provide the most reliable strategies for managing 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.