ANXIETY TRAINING FOR SCHOOLS
Coach Anxious Children & Teens
Into Empowered, Confident Students
A Complete Anxiety Training Bundle for Your Entire School Community.
Discover Anxiety Training that will teach your staff how to coach your students through worry and fear and help them thrive socially and academically.
Anxiety Training for Schools helps school communities alleviate the fear and worry that face their students.
THE RISE OF ANXIETY IN CHILDREN IS A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS FACING 1 IN 3 YOUTH--NATIONALLY. NEARLY 80% OF THESE KIDS AND TEENS SUFFER WITHOUT HELP.
As a teacher, administrator, or guidance counselor, you know the struggles of children with anxiety. They often have academic and social challenges, making it hard for them to stay on track with learning goals, in addition to being at risk for low self-esteem and substance abuse. And, while you know the risk factors, you likely also struggle to meet the needs of students with anxiety.
You are not alone.
For over 10 years, we have delivered live, in-person trainings to school communities and have listened to others just like you. We’ve heard your need for effective tools to coach students into living well with anxiety.
What's Anxiety Training for Schools?
Anxiety Training for Schools: The Complete Training Bundle, is an on-demand training series for school communities (teachers, staff, students, and parents) to help students take back their lives from anxiety, to face their fears, and live a life they value. It provides an actionable, evidence-based approach for parents, teachers, and staff to coach students.
The School Bundle can be shared with each school in your district, including all of your elementary, middle and high Schools. We have bulk pricing for multiple school districts and education service agencies.
In this program, your school community will learn:
What happens in our brain to set off the anxiety response.
How to retrain the brain to handle uncertainty, change, and distress.
What Makes Anxiety Training for Schools Successful in Helping Children with Anxiety?
Anxiety Training for Schools uses a unique, three-tiered system that trains teachers and staff, parents, and students in the same techniques, using the same language to coach children with anxiety. This unified approach empowers your school community to embrace the anxiety paradox: walking towards fear, talking back to worry, and sitting in discomfort are the keys to changing our relationship with fear.
By supporting your students who have anxiety, they will be more effective learners.
Develop Language
Teachers and staff will develop language and action steps that help students become more resilient
Role of anxiety
Parents will understand the role of anxiety in families and how to partner with schools to help their children live well with anxiety.
Why feel anxious
Students will learn why they feel anxious and specific steps to feel better.
Learn Skills
Everyone will learn skills to shift out of avoidance and accommodations and into doing what they value even when they feel anxious.
Empower Your School Community Today
One comprehensive program with three effective trainings to meet each person's need.
Need Anxiety Training for multiple school districts?
PREVIEW EACH ON-DEMAND TRAINING
What's Included In Anxiety Training For Schools
Our school training teaches your staff how to coach your students through worry and fear, allowing them to effectively help them thrive socially and academically.
- Increased Student Attendance
- Improved Classroom Participation
- Clearer Communication for Teachers & Parents
After completing Anxiety Training for Schools, your teachers and staff will be able to identify anxiety symptoms and triggers and develop strategies to help the student increase their tolerance of uncertainty and distress.
What People Say About Anxiety Training
Rosa L. D'Abate, PhD
Coordinator of Student Services Williamsville Central School District
Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C, have provided our mental health staff with tangible and practical information and guidance in our work with students experiencing Anxiety and the associated behavioral issues. Their ability to consult on K-12 cases and provide direction has allowed our staff and students to move forward toward positive outcomes. There is universal agreement that spending an hour or two in consultation with Kimberly or Elizabeth is well worth the time and effort. We look forward to a sustained and continual relationship with AnxietyTraining.
Sue Daley, M.A.
Penn State Behrend
When I received Kimberly Morrow's flyer in the mail offering a one-day workshop ‘Face It & Feel It,’ I was skeptical that so much material on the treatment of anxiety could be presented in such a short amount of time. I was not disappointed. In fact, it has been a while since I attended a workshop that offered so many treatment strategies in such a succinct, down-to-earth, client-friendly, and efficient manner. Kimberly has a special gift of delivery of the material that she has so obviously mastered in her practice over the years. I have been sharing the workshop ‘gems’ with my colleagues and we look forward to incorporating them into our therapy sessions. She has brought new life to our work!
Kelly Celony
Williamsville Central School District
Your workshops have really inspired me and re-energized me around feeling like I can really help those with anxiety (we are just seeing SO much of it in our building alone)! I tell everyone I can that they absolutely HAVE to go to one of your workshops if they get the chance! Thanks again!
When Will We See Results?
Immediately. And we mean it.
Once students understand their brain and how to change it, they can implement these skills quickly. This is especially true when they have the combined support of their teachers, staff and parents.
And, once educators can identify anxiety in students, they can immediately implement language that is helpful.
Your entire school community will start to see results as soon as they apply the strategies and language.
Ready to empower your school community?
ANXIETY TRAINING COFOUNDERS
OVER 50 YEARS OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE
We are therapists turned trainers with a passion for helping children and teens live well with anxiety. We are nationally respected speakers and authors on anxiety and OCD treatment.
We have been training school communities in evidence-based anxiety treatment for over 10 years.
Cofounders and anxiety experts Kimberly Morrow, LCSW, and Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C bring over 50 years of experience and leadership in anxiety and OCD treatment to Anxiety Training.
Kimberly Morrow, LCSW
Kimberly Morrow, LCSW helps people live well with anxiety using compassionate, evidenced-based treatment. She has been in private practice in Erie, PA for almost 30 years. Kimberly earned the Clinician Outreach Award and the Member of Distinction Award from Anxiety and Depression Association of American (ADAA). She is a graduate of the International Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation’s Behavior Therapy Institute. She has served on the board for OCD Pennsylvania. She authored Face It and Feel It: 10 Simple (But Not Easy) Ways to Live Well with Anxiety and co-authored CBT for Anxiety: A Step-By-Step Training Manual for the Treatment of Fear, Panic, Worry and OCD.
Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C
Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C is a licensed clinical social worker, board approved supervisor, and trainer. She has been in private practice in Rockville, Maryland for almost 30 years. Elizabeth graduated from Columbia University and received her clinical training at the National Institutes of Health. She is a Founding Clinical Fellow of the Anxiety and Depression Association of American (ADAA) where she also earned the Clinician Outreach Award and the Clinician of Distinction Award. She has co-authored several books, including The Anxiety Cure and The Anxiety Cure for Kids.
Frequently Asked Questions
Anxiety Training for Schools is a virtual training series for school communities (teachers, staff, students, and parents) to help children and students take back their lives from anxiety, to face their fears, and live a life they value. It provides an actionable, evidence-based approach for parents, teachers, and staff to coach students.
By supporting your students who have anxiety, they will be more effective learners.
This program teaches your whole school community
- what happens in the brain to engage the anxiety response and
- how to retrain the brain to handle uncertainty, change, and distress.
And it does so through three, engaging trainings:
- Tools to Help Your Students Live Well with Distress and Uncertainty for Staff
- Winning the Anxiety Game for Students
- Helping Your Child be Effective with Anxiety for Parents
Anxiety Training for Schools uses a unique, three-tiered system that trains teachers and staff, parents, and students in the same techniques, using the same language to coach students with anxiety. This unified approach empowers your school community to embrace the anxiety paradox: walking towards fear, talking back to worry, and sitting in discomfort are the keys to changing our relationship with fear.
Your school district and parents will learn how to support children and students with anxiety in these ways.
- Teachers and staff will develop language and action steps that help anxious students become more resilient.
- Parents will understand the role of anxiety in families and how to partner with schools to help their children live well with anxiety.
- Students will learn why they feel anxious and specific steps to feel better.
- Everyone will learn skills to shift out of avoidance and accommodations and into doing what they value even when they feel anxious.
Once you purchase this bundle, you can download each video to share it with your target audience, in the format and timeframe that works for you.
Use it as SEL curriculum or part of speech and language pragmatics. Share it with students in health, English, or math classes. Show it to faculty and staff in meetings. View it with parents at PTA meetings.
In any setting, show the video, create small groups to process, and let the group leader use the handout with questions to aid in processing. Through processing, you create a safe environment for everyone to share their experience with anxiety. And, processing also helps set the conditions for future success at tackling the challenges of anxiety for your whole school community.
At Anxiety Training, we (co-founders Kimberly and Elizabeth) are anxiety treatment specialists with over 50 years of combined experience. We are therapists turned trainers with a passion for helping people live well with anxiety disorders. We are nationally respected speakers and author experts.
For 10 years, we have been training school systems in evidence-based anxiety coaching for children and students.
Read more about Anxiety Training and our company founders, Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth Dupond Spencer, LCSW-C.
Immediately. And we mean it.
Once children understand their brain and how to change it, they can implement these skills quickly so they can get back to learning. This is especially true when they have the combined support of their teachers, staff and parents.
And, once educators can identify anxiety in children and students, they can immediately implement language that is helpful.
Your entire school community will see positive results as soon as they apply the strategies and language.
AnxietyTraining.com for Schools shifts away from the harmful paradigm of accommodating the anxious thoughts and behavior of students. And, it leans into the evidence-based practice of increased tolerance of uncertainty and discomfort to manage anxiety.
This program includes engaging real-life stories from students and parents.
- Listen to a student share his experience with anxiety and how he got better.
- View to the powerful story of a family and learn how accommodating their daughter’s anxiety was the opposite of what was helpful. Witness how appropriately handling anxiety freed their family.
We’ve included printable handouts, including a special resource with easy-to-implement strategies for coaching children and students through anxiety.
Yes. If you act now and purchase the entire AnxietyTraining.com for Schools Program, you’ll also receive “Coronavirus Stress: 10 Simple and Powerful Coping Strategies for Parents” as a free, bonus resource.
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