Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre Webinar | Cool Little Kids Program: Building Young Children's Confidence

Does your pre-schooler exhibit excessive shyness, separation anxiety and lack of confidence? Are you an early childhood educator working with young children showing signs of anxiety? 

Join our webinar to learn the signs of anxiety in pre-schoolers and how best to equip yourself with both knowledge and practical skills for how to help children manage and overcome anxiety.

About the Cool Little Kids Program
The Cool Little Kids program is an early intervention program targeted at caregivers of three to six-year-old children who exhibit excessive shyness, separation anxiety and lack of confidence. Cool Little Kids is suitable for a parent if anxiety or shyness is the main problem causing their child difficulty or is affecting the child’s day-to-day life. The program aims to increase the confidence of young children so that they have fewer anxiety problems as they grow. Find out more about the Cool Little Kids Program here. 

Ron Rapee is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University where his research specializes in anxiety and related disorders across the lifespan. He has developed empirically supported treatment programs that are used across the world and was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012 for his contributions to clinical psychology.

Sandie Wong is a Professor in early childhood, Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and on the Executive of the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre at Macquarie University. Sandie works in collaboration with academics from a range of disciplines, early childhood organisations and practitioners, governments and NGOs, to conduct high quality research, evaluation and practitioner enquiry, that contributes to best practice in early childhood. Her current work is investigating: early childhood practices; workforce issues; educator well-being, and an evaluation of UNICEF’s school readiness program in Timor Leste.