discover your Anxiety reaction types©
We all have anxiety at various points in our lives; it’s ever-present and operates to varying degrees. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it hinders. Our ways of managing anxiety are based on heredity, life experiences, and temperament—and often, we’re not aware that it’s even present.
Dr. Dana Dorfman developed the Anxiety Reaction Types© (ARTs) from her years of clinical research. When we’re aware of our ARTs, we can take control of our anxieties and use them to benefit ourselves and our work. She originally created this framework from her research on parenting anxiety and later adapted it for the different ways anxiety manifests in our work. Once you recognize your ARTs, you’ll be able to shift your decisions to better align with your values, rather than reacting to your fears.
Welcome to the
Parenting Anxiety Reaction Type (PART) Quiz
Dr. Dorfman created the Parenting Anxiety Reaction Types© (PART) framework to help parents identify some of the unconscious ways that anxiety can manifest. Consider them as frameworks for understanding, rather than rigid molds that can help you make small parenting changes with a large impact on your kid’s trajectory and mental health—and your own.
The quiz is free and your answers are confidential. It should take about 20 minutes to complete.
Welcome to the
Anxiety Reaction Type (ART) @ Work Quiz
Dr. Dorfman created the Anxiety Reaction Types© (ART) framework to identify the unconscious ways that anxiety can manifest at work.
The ART @ Work quiz is built to offer a different perspective on yourself (and your coworkers), improve your relationship with work, and help shift your decisions to better align with your values, rather than reacting to your fears.
The quiz is free and your answers are confidential. It should take about 20 minutes to complete.
Download the free Parenting
decision-Making worksheet
Parents are constantly making decisions, big and small, that will affect our child’s life. It’s an incredible privilege to make these choices—and extremely stressful. Parents often end up feeling torn between what we feel we should do, and what we want to do.
Dr. Dorfman created this free worksheet to help you do just that.
This is not meant to be a quick fix solution but rather a tool to help parents start imagining creative solutions for what can feel like intractable dilemmas.
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The advice provided Dr. Dorfman are not intended to substitute professional psychological treatment, therapy, or medical intervention. If you have concerns about you or your child’s well-being, consult a physician or mental health professional.
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The advice provided Dr. Dorfman are not intended to substitute professional psychological treatment, therapy, or medical intervention. If you have concerns about you or your child’s well-being, consult a physician or mental health professional.
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