Health and Wellbeing
How Education Professionals can Support Children and Young People with Anxiety
Give anxious children the words for their worries and calming tricks they can use on their own, so they aren't always waiting for an adult.
- 1 hour 5 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Spot the warning signs of anxiety, including in children who mask it well
- Use a four-step emotion coaching script when a child is anxious or upset
- Teach calming techniques such as candle breathing and grounding through the senses
- Keep the quiet children who slip under the radar in mind every day
- Share strategies with parents so children hear the same messages at home
About this course
Some anxious children are easy to spot: tearful, reluctant to come in, complaining of stomach aches. Others are the life and soul of the playground and hide it well. Either way, most classes now have a few children who are really struggling.
Two former teachers who spent 20 years as behaviour advisers for a local authority share what they've seen work. You'll learn a four-step emotion coaching script: notice the feeling, normalise it, hold the boundary, then solve the problem together. There are also calming techniques children can use by themselves, like blowing out five finger "candles" one at a time.
The aim is a class where talking about worry is normal. In one Year 5 class, when the teacher admitted she felt anxious, every hand went up with a strategy for her to try.
- For early career teachers, governors and 6 other roles. Early years, primary, secondary and special.
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- 49 min
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- 17 min
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