Helping Kids Manage Friendships, Find Balance, and Build Resilience
Guest Speaker: Phyllis Fagell, counselor, journalist, and author
After several years of stress, disruption, and uncertainty, children need help bolstering their social skills, making and keeping friends, building a “coping toolbox,” sustaining balance, and maintaining reasonable, attainable self-expectations. In this talk, Phyllis Fagell will draw from her research and work with kids in both the academic and clinical settings to offer practical ways to help children develop resilience and thrive.
Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC is the school counselor at Sheridan School in Washington, DC, a therapist who works with children and families in private practice, and an author and journalist. She’s the author of Middle School Matters and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post. She also freelances for publications including Psychology Today, CNN, Working Mother, U.S. News & World Report and Your Teen, and her ideas have been shared in outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Edutopia, MindShift, and NPR. Phyllis currently is working on her next book, Middle School Superpowers, Raising Resilient Tweens in Turbulent Times, (Hachette, August ’23). She lives in Bethesda, MD with her husband and three children and they are members of Temple Sinai.
Join the Temple Sinai DayTimers for an interesting Zoom presentation. There will be ample opportunity for questions and comments following the presentation. Please invite friends who are interested to register.
Guest Speaker: Phyllis Fagell, counselor, journalist, and author
After several years of stress, disruption, and uncertainty, children need help bolstering their social skills, making and keeping friends, building a “coping toolbox,” sustaining balance, and maintaining reasonable, attainable self-expectations. In this talk, Phyllis Fagell will draw from her research and work with kids in both the academic and clinical settings to offer practical ways to help children develop resilience and thrive.
Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC is the school counselor at Sheridan School in Washington, DC, a therapist who works with children and families in private practice, and an author and journalist. She’s the author of Middle School Matters and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post. She also freelances for publications including Psychology Today, CNN, Working Mother, U.S. News & World Report and Your Teen, and her ideas have been shared in outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Edutopia, MindShift, and NPR. Phyllis currently is working on her next book, Middle School Superpowers, Raising Resilient Tweens in Turbulent Times, (Hachette, August ’23). She lives in Bethesda, MD with her husband and three children and they are members of Temple Sinai.
Join the Temple Sinai DayTimers for an interesting Zoom presentation. There will be ample opportunity for questions and comments following the presentation. Please invite friends who are interested to register.
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