Anxiety in Children & Students: Supporting School Communities
The rise of anxiety in children and students is a mental health crisis facing 1 in 3 youth in our country. And, nearly 80% of these children and teens suffer without help or a diagnosis.
As a teacher, administrator, or guidance counselor, you know the struggles of children and students with anxiety. They often have academic and social challenges, in addition to their risks for low self-esteem and substance abuse. And, while you know the risk factors, you likely struggle to meet the needs of student anxiety in your classroom and school.
You are not alone.
For 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 We Offer to School Districts for Coaching Students with Anxiety
AnxietyTraining.com 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.
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.
- 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
What Makes this Program Successful in Helping Children & Students with Anxiety?
AnxietyTraining.com 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.
Why Trust AnxietyTraining.com?
At Anxietytraining.com, 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 AnxietyTraining.com and our company founders, Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth Dupond Spencer, LCSW-C.
AnxietyTraining.com has had many requests from school districts for trainings and webinars for the upcoming year. In response, we have given this careful thought and will be providing 3 offerings that will be about 45 min each. These can be used as stand- alone webinars for students and staff to watch and/or discuss with each other. We would also be happy to provide a live option that you would host where we would watch the webinars together and provide online Q&A. If you have any questions, please contact us at Kimberly@anxietytraining.com.
1. For Staff: Tools to Help Students Live Well with Distress and Uncertainty (Coming soon!)
2. For Students: Effective Strategies to Develop Resilience During Challenging and Uncertain Times (Coming soon!)
3. For Parents: Coronavirus Stress: 10 Simple and Powerful Coping Strategies for Parents (this is up and available on our website-some schools have already put it on their parent portals)
Anxiety Resources & Support For Your Students, Parents, Teachers & Staff
1 Comprehensive Program with 3 Classes to Share with Everyone in your School Community.
For Teachers and Staff
Tools to Help Students Live Well with Distress and Uncertainty
Features
- Printable cheat sheet, "7 Tips for Teachers"
- A common strategy and vocabulary for the school community
Benefits
- Increased Student Attendance
- Improve Classroom Participation
- Clearer Communication for Teachers & Parents
1 Comprehensive Program with 3 Classes to Share with Everyone in your School Community.
For Parents
Coronavirus Stress: 10 Simple and Powerful Coping Strategies for Parents
Features
- Learn 10 coaching strategies to help your child face their fears and tolerate discomfort.
- Identify symptoms of anxiety and how it may affect your child at home and school.
- Develop strategies with your child’s teachers that will quickly and effectively turn around anxiety.
Benefits for Families
- Reduced conflict and tears about school and friend circles.
- Develop a resilient family and learn healthy ways to confront worry.
- Watch their children thrive in social situations without worry.
For Students
Effective Strategies to Develop Resilience During Challenging and Uncertain Times
Features
- Learn specific skills to ignore anxiety and face their fears.
- Know when to talk back to anxiety when its hurting, not helping them.
- Identify ways that anxiety tricks them into avoiding important things in their lives.
Benefits
- Improve test scores and overall academic performance.
- Find enjoyment in learning and going to school.
- Be comfortable and confident to deliver speeches and presentations.
- Participate with ease in social activities with their friends.
When Will We See Results in Our Students with Anxiety?
Immediately. And we mean it.
Once students understand the 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 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.
What’s Different About This Program?
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.
Does this Program Address the Pandemic?
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.
Act Now & Break the Cycle of Student Anxiety
Without a unified, evidence-based approach, the number of anxious students in your school will steadily increase. Your teachers will continue to write accommodations for students who can’t handle their symptoms. And, tensions will continue to escalate in your school community as you battle out which approach works best.
Maybe you know this cycle of implementing strategies that only serve to strengthen the hold of anxiety on your students?
Bonus Class Included With the Full Program
ANXIETY TRAINING IN THE SCHOOLS: CORONAVIRUS STRESS --10 SIMPLE AND POWERFUL COPING STRATEGIES FOR PARENTS
This timely and urgent bonus content will help your school community be ready to start the school year with a resilient mindset!
It includes a 45-min training to help parents navigate the challenges of work while parenting and helping their children succeed with online learning. Parents will
- understand how anxiety and stress work,
- outline a way through fear to taking reasonable risks that allow their families to live a valued life, &
- learn 10 simple tips that can help them navigate the pandemic.
This bonus also includes 10 companion mini-lessons, carefully curated to represent a diversity of genders, races, and life stages to provide an experiential component.
