Supporting Children and Young People with Anxiety: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Herrick, Barbara Redman-White

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This accessible and user-friendly resource will help a wide range of adults support children and young people with anxiety. Clear information on the nature of anxiety is combined with helpful ideas, practical strategies and resources to help adults feel confident in understanding and managing the emotional well-being of children and young people.

Supporting Children and Young People with Anxiety cuts through the literature and provides practical support based on sound psychological theory and evidence-based practice. Intervention programmes and suggested strategies have been tried and tested in schools and colleges, with young people and families, and can be adapted for use with groups, individual children or parents. Presuming no prior experience on the part of the reader, the authors acknowledge the challenges involved in recognising anxiety and delivering tailored treatment, and emphasise the role of prevention and early intervention.

All resources are provided as photocopiable and downloadable resources which can be easily customised for use with children and parents. This essential text will prove an invaluable resource for worried parents, students, teachers and carers, enabling them to soothe, support and empower the young people in their care.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures/tables
Acknowledgements
Forewords
How to use this book
PART 1: Understanding anxiety
1 What is anxiety?
2 Challenges to overcome
3 Understanding child and adolescent development in relation to anxiety
PART 2: Managing anxiety at school
4 Whole-school support
5 Anxiety in the classroom
6 Preparing to work with small groups and/or individuals
PART 3: Managing anxiety at home
7 Support and advice for parents/carers
8 Creating a healthy lifestyle
PART 4: Practical interventions
9 Ten-week intervention programme for small groups
10 A model for working with individual students
PART 5: Appendices
Appendix 1: Group session worksheets (Chapter 9)
1.1 Worry words
1.2 Fear thermometer
1.3 Calming strategies
1.4 Things I am good at
1.5 Red and green thoughts
1.6 My emergency back pack
1.7 My emergency tool box
1.8 My emergency velvet pouch
1.9 Review of strategies that work for you
Appendix 2: Group session tasks (Chapter 9)
2.1 Smiling
2.2 Trying out an idea
2.3 Noticing how our bodies feel
2.4 Something calming to practise
2.5 What are your strengths
2.6 Name that emotion
2.7 Changing red thoughts to green
2.8 Changing our actions
2.9 Using your emergency kit
Appendix 3: Worksheets for working with individuals (Chapter 10)
3.1 Introductory session
3.1.1 Baseline measures
3.1.2 What went well this week?
3.2 Understanding and expressing emotions
3.2.1 Things that make me feel good
3.2.2 Emotions word search
3.3 Identifying, challenging and changing negative thoughts
3.3.1 Thinking patterns
3.3.2 My support network
3.4 Identifying, challenging and changing negative behaviours
3.4.1 SMART targets
3.5 Lifestyle changes
3.5.1 Well-being
3.5.2 The five senses
3.5.3 Sleep hygiene
3.6 Relaxation
3.6.1 Visualisation
3.6.2 Breathing exercises
3.7 Final session
3.7.1 Aide memoire
Appendix 4: PowerPoint and information sheets for parent workshops
4.1 PowerPoint presentation
4.2 Factors that help to maintain anxiety
4.3 Practical tips for parents
4.4 Relaxation and calming
4.5 Separation anxiety
4.6 How to manage panic attacks
4.7 Parents as role models
4.8 References and websites for parents
Bibliography
Useful websites
Index