Anxiety in Children
march 2015 for families
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This flyer has lots of resources and strategies for helping you and your child deal with stress and anxiety. I hope you find it useful, and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Mme Linda
Anxiety in kids - for parents
Most children have fears or worries of some kind. If you’re concerned about your child, the following tips might help you decide whether you need to seek professional help.
- Ask yourself the following question: Is my child’s anxiety stopping him from doing things he wants to do? Is it interfering with his friendships, schoolwork or family life? If the answer is ‘yes’, consider seeking professional help.
- Compare your child’s behaviour with other children of the same age. For example, it’s common for most children to experience separation fears when going to preschool or school for the first time, but far less common over the age of eight years. If your child’s behaviour is very different from that of other children, consider professional help.
- Consider how severe your child’s reaction is. If she’s extremely distressed and hard to settle when you leave her, for example, think seriously about professional help.
Severe anxiety can impact on children’s health and happiness. Some anxious children will grow out of their fears, but others will keep having trouble with anxiety unless they get professional help. Consider talking with your family doctor or a mental health clinician.
from Child Mind InstituteParenting Tips for Anxious Kids
- Expectations of your child
- Build your child's personal strength
- Letting your child learn to do things on his/her own
- Helping your child handle his own feelings
- Passing on your fears
- Working together as parents
- Consequences
from The Children's and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety.
a great go to B.C. site below
heart-mind online
Activities
- Yoga in the Classroom
- How to Breathe Mindfully
- Knit to be Focused and Calm
- Emotional ABC's
- How Are You Peeling?
If you want to read further, more activities
These are the 5 domains as defined by this site. Activities for home and school are provided.
Secure and calm describes the ability to take part in daily activities and approach new situations without being overwhelmed with worries, sadness or anxiety. To be secure and calm also means being able to cope with stress and pressure, and to bounce back from difficulties. It is an inner capacity for well-being.Getting along with others is the ability to form positive and healthy relationships with peers and adults. Children with better abilities to regulate their emotions and behaviours have more friends and experience more positive playtime with their peers.
Being alert and engaged is the ability to manage and direct one's own feelings, thoughts and emotions. In general, the ability to be 'present' and to exercise self-control.
Being compassionate and kind is closely related to empathy. While empathy refers more generally to the ability to take the perspective of and to feel the emotions of another person, compassion goes one step further. Compassion includes the desire to take actions that will alleviate another person’s distress.
Managing conflict effectively is about creating an atmosphere where violence and aggression are not likely. To resolve conflict means using empathy, problem-solving skills, understanding other points of view and coming up with ways to make things right in a fair way. Peace is more than the absence of conflict and violence. It is recognizing and acting on the worth of self, others and our interconnectedness as humans.
Below are questions and answers and an audio from Dr. Lynn Miller, a specialist in the field of child anxiety from the University of British Columbia
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anxiety in young childrenEmail: lindacampbellsel@gmail.com
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