Guiding parents and teachers to navigate the challenges of Anxiety
Anxiety is thought to be the most common mental health or neurodevelopmental condition worldwide. Even outside of a global pandemic and other stress-inducing aspects of societal upheaval, the pace and expectations of modern society seem to be causing a steady rise in symptoms of anxiety across the globe. Parents are worried, teachers are stressed, and their students are getting increasingly more anxious. Anxiety can significantly (cont'd below)
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Leading Articles about Managing Anxiety
What is DBT and How Does It Differ from Other Treatment?
Emotions are a tricky thing. They can be beautiful and powerful … but not always rational. When they become intense…
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Managing Anxiety with ADHD
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Does Your Child Get Anxious? Tell a Social Story!
If your child becomes anxious with new or unknown events or people, or is overly stimulated in new places, you’ll…
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Using Stress to Help Performance, Anxiety and Self-Esteem
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Create a Personal Cave
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Saboteur Management: How to Silence Your Inner Critic
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Make Mistakes Matter Of Fact
Diane and I hear it all the time on our group coaching calls, and with our private clients. Things like,…
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Tips For Talking to (Anxious) Kids About School Shootings
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I Learned to Parent ADHD – From My Dog Trainer
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CONTINUED(continued) impair a student’s availability to learning; its close companion, stress, can reduce the effectiveness of an adult’s communication. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), nearly 1 in 3 of all adolescents ages 13 to 18 will experience an anxiety disorder; the Anxiety and Depression Association of America puts the number for adults at 1 in 5.
Many strategies are offered to help children, teens and adults manage the symptoms of anxiety, including: medications, stress management training, meditation and mindfulness practices, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), some forms of coaching, sleep hygiene, and breathing techniques. New and promising CBD research is revealing potential options for support in addition to commonly prescribed medications. As with ADHD and many other conditions impacting children, when parents receive behavior management training, they are better able to create an environment that can effectively support their children and teens with anxiety.
Symptoms of anxiety vary. On one end of the spectrum, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is reflected in more than 3% of the population who tend to feel anxious most days and struggle to remember when they felt relaxed. Social anxiety is another form of anxiety that occurs specifically in certain social dynamics.
On the other end of the spectrum, anxiety is a symptom of other mental health conditions such as panic disorders, post traumatic stress disorder, phobias, or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Anxiety also commonly coexists in children and teens with other health and learning conditions such as ADHD, learning disabilities, autism and depression. Again, according to the NIH, between 2007 and 2012, anxiety disorders in children and teens went up 20%.