A free workshop for parents titled Helping Kids Cope with Anxiety will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21, in the Page Middle School auditorium. 

The workshop will be presented by Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D. and is sponsored by Gloucester County Public Schools. Anxiety is the most common emotional problem in children and teens, and can sidetrack youngsters from learning, making friends and having fun, a release said. 

Wagner will discuss the differences between normal anxiety and problematic anxiety, red flags and warning signs, how anxiety manifests at home and school, practical tools for anxiety at home and school, and strategies that do not help. 

Wagner is an anxiety expert, author, international speaker, a clinical child psychologist and director of The Anxiety Wellness Center in Cary, North Carolina. 

An adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Wagner’s books, including “Worried No More, Up...