Free Spirit Publishing Help Anxious Kids in a Stressful World: 25 Classroom Strategies

Equip teachers with the knowledge and tools needed to address child and adolescent anxiety at a critical moment. The number of students experiencing anxiety at school is on the rise. With this book, teachers can create emotionally supportive environments and strengthen children's abilities to cope with anxiety. This must-have resource: Provides a framework for understanding anxiety, its causes, and the various ways it can present in young people, Offers standalone action strategies for classroom use, including a matrix to identify which strategies may be most useful for specific situations, Makes implementation of strategies easy with reproducibles for teacher and student use, Drs. David Campos and Kathleen McConnell Fad wrote this book to ensure that teachers, regardless of their prior knowledge and background, have a wide range of easy-to-understand and useful instructional tools to address anxious behaviors.

• Rates of diagnosed anxiety and anxiety-related behaviors are on the rise, but children are unlikely to receive mental health services outside school, so in-school interventions are vital to their well-being
• Book treats anxiety as a broader issue, recognizing that many students struggling with some aspect of it may not be diagnosed, and offers specific strategies for classrooms
• Book is immediately useable, with 25 practical action strategies and a matrix to identify which strategies may be most useful for specific situations
• Book helps teachers strengthen students' ability to cope with anxious behaviors that lead to difficulties in the classroom