1st Edition
Helping Teens and Young Adults with Anxiety A Ten Session Programme
Introduction
How to use this book
Session 1 Understanding Anxiety
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Script
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1.1 Interactive Model
1.2 Group Rules
1.3Personal Goals
1.4 Positive Diary
Session 2 Helpful/Unhelpful Coping Strategies
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2.1 The Stress Bucket
Session 3 How Anxiety Makes our Bodies Feel
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3.1 Common Physical Reactions to Stress
3.2 Body Template
3.3 Physical Ractions Diary
Session 4 Understanding and Managing our Emotions
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4.1 Emotional Vocabulary Table
4.2 Emotions Cards for the Game
Session 5 Changing our Thoughts
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5.1 Alternative Explanations
5.2 Hot Seat Exercise
5.3 Real Life Practice
Session 6 Mindfulness
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6.1 Mindfulness Questionnaire
6.2 Mindfulness Practice
Session 7 Facing our Fears
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7.1 Unhelpful Behaviours
7.2 Avoidance Cycle
7.3 Small Steps to Goal
7.4 Guided Visualisation
Session 8 Lifestyle
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8.1 What Is a Healthy Lifestyle?
8.2 The Wheel of Life
8.3 Lifestyle Coaching Notes
Session 9 Identifying our Strengths
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9.1 Strength Cards
9.2 Aide Memoire for Self-Reflection
Session 10 Course Review and Celebration
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10.1 Action Plan
10.2 Evaluation
10.3 Attractive Certificate for Teens/Young Adults
Biography
Elizabeth Herrick and Barbara Redman-White are both educational psychologists. Their previous book, Supporting Children and Young People with Anxiety: A Practical Guide, was published by Routledge (2019).
Helen Hudson spent over twenty years working in the education sector and currently works for the NHS in their adult mental health programme.
