Early Years Anxiety Pack

All children occasionally experience some fear or anxiety, especially when they face challenging tasks, unfamiliar people (stranger anxiety), social situations (social anxiety) or when they are separated from their main caregiver (separation anxiety). When children with anxiety see their strengths, they can feel so much bigger than their anxiety. This pack explains anxiety to children and gives parents and caregiver suggestions on how to overcome it.

Key Features

• The Nervous Knight: A Story About Overcoming Worries and Anxiety - The nervous knight never likes to take their armour off - what if something bad happens?! All they can think about is what could go wrong. But thankfully, with some help from friends, they learn to overcome this feeling. This picture books explains anxiety to children and contains a guide for parents that gives suggestions on how to overcome it.
• Hey Awesome: A book about anxiety, courage, and being already awesome - If kids with anxiety could see their strengths, they would feel so much bigger than their anxiety. They would feel bigger than everything - as though a tiny, tip-toed stretch could have them touching the top of the world from where they are. This book is a reminder for all kids that everything they need to be brave, strong and brilliant is already in them.
• What to Do When You Don't Want to Be Apart: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Separation Anxiety - Hot air balloon pilots have wonderful adventures, where they get to see things they have never seen before and learn all about the world outside. This workbook introduces kids and parents to cognitive-behavioural therapy-based strategies that can help them understand and cope with any type of separation anxiety. Like the other books in this series, it includes activities designed to change kids' perspectives on being separated and includes an introduction for parents and caregivers about how to most successfully use the book.
• What To Do When You Feel Too Shy: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Social Anxiety - Circus clowns perform tricks and make us laugh. They wear bright colours, big shoes, and all kinds of wigs and colourful hats. Lots of kids feel shy when they feel that other people notice them. What to Do When You Feel Too Shy guides children and their parents through the emotions underlying social anxiety using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioural principles. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to overcome social anxiety.
• Binnie the Baboon Anxiety and Stress Activity Book: A Therapeutic Story with Creative and CBT Activities To Help Children Aged 5-10 Who Worry - Binnie is a creative and energetic baboon, who bounces around the lush green mountains of Rwanda in East Africa. But like many of us, Binnie often feels worried and stressed. This activity book has been developed by expert child psychologist Dr Karen Treisman. The first part of the book is a colourful illustrated therapeutic story about Binnie the Baboon, with a focus on worry and anxiety. This is followed by a wealth of creative activities and photocopiable worksheets for children to explore issues relating to anxiety, worry, fears, and stress, and how to find ways to understand and overcome them. The final section of the book is full of advice and practical strategies for parents, carers, and professionals on how to help children aged 5-10 to start to understand why they experience feelings of anxiety, and what they can do to help reduce and navigate it.
• Visiting Feelings - Do you have a feeling that's visiting today? Can you open your door and invite it to play? Visiting Feelings encourages children to treat their feelings like guests - welcome them in, get to know them, and perhaps learn why they are visiting. Through this purposeful and mindful exploration, Visiting Feelings harnesses a young child's innate capacity to fully experience the present moment and invites children to sense, explore, and befriend all of their feelings with acceptance and equanimity.

Additional Information

This workbook introduces kids and parents to cognitive-behavioural therapy-based strategies that can help them understand and cope with any type of separation anxiety. Like the other books in this series, it includes activities designed to change kids' perspectives on being separated and includes an introduction for parents and caregivers about how to most successfully use the book.

Specifications

• Target Age: 5-10 years
• Format: Activity book, Picture book, Interactive self-help book
• Therapeutic Approach: Cognitive-behavioural therapy