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Understanding anxiety in children and young people
Supporting parents to understand anxiety and how to help
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is a feeling. But it is also much more than that. It not only impacts upon on our emotions, but it can cause a physical response too. Our heart rate often increases, we may breathe quicker, we may feel sick or feel sweaty. Experiencing this can feel scary. But understanding what is going on and having strategies to process these big feelings can help.
For children and young people, processing feelings of anxiety is a life skill they are learning. Our clinical psychologists have pulled together resources to help you along your parenting journey. We want to empower you to teach these skills to your children so they can feel confident to manage big feelings.
School and anxiety
Is your child about to sit their SATs? Or do you have a young person approaching GCSE or other further education exams?
Whilst exams give your child or teen an opportunity to show all the learning they have done, often they can lead to feelings of worry or stress. We have resources to help you support them to understand these feelings.
Spill the beans on SATs
We’ve partnered with Learning by Questions to ‘spill the beans’ on SATs and help your child understand what SATs are and how to manage feelings of worry or anxiety.
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Teenage brain and exam stress
Dr Rebecca Johnson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist shares more about how teenage brain development impacts exam stress… and more importantly, strategies to help handle these big emotions.
Understanding your teenager’s brain
It can be hard to know how best to support teenagers through exam season. Getting the balance between encouraging revision and rest can be tricky. It may even bring up memories for you and what your school exam experiences were like (both good and bad).
Understanding teenage brain development is a great starting point. The way the teenage brain changes and develops makes teens more responsive and alert to their fight or flight response. Something which can be triggered by exams.
The teenage brain goes through a big remodelling process during adolescence. If you’d like to learn more about how they’re developing, our online learning pathway can help.
Find what you need in our bitesize e-learning and blogs
How can I support my child with anxiety?
Clinical Psychologist and Child Psychotherapist, Dr Hazel Douglas MBE, shares advice for how to support your child with anxiety.
Understanding anxiety
Clinical Psychologist and Child Psychotherapist, Dr Hazel Douglas MBE shares her insights on anxiety in this short video.
Managing parent anxiety
Being a parent comes with its own set of worries. Learning how to process your feelings is just as important as teaching your child these skills. Clinical Psychologist and Child Psychotherapist, Dr Hazel Douglas MBE, shares her advice on handling your own worries.
Understanding your feelings (for teenagers only!)
Online learning to support teenagers to understand how they are feeling.
Understanding your child’s mental health and wellbeing
Online learning to bookend our ‘Understanding your child’ pathway.
Understanding your child’s feelings
Our ‘taster’ pathway designed to introduce emotional health, wellbeing and much more.