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Butterfly Breath

This handout provides instructions on how to practice an all-ages mindful breathing skill called “Butterfly Breath." Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

 Printable Tool
  Added on 9/24/2024
Recognizing and Managing Anxiety in the Classroom: Worksheets, Videos, and Resources

This collection offers a course and resources to support teachers in identifying the early signs of anxiety, supporting students through stressful situations, and next steps to helping students find. Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

 Resource Collection
  Added on 2/11/2025
The Difference Between Stress, Fear, & Anxiety

This short video explains the difference between stress, fear, and anxiety and how each show up in our bodies and minds. Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

 Video
  1 minute, 20 seconds
  Added on 9/24/2024
Recognizing and Managing Anxiety in the Classroom

This course is designed to help educators navigate the nuances involved with recognizing and addressing anxiety and stress in K-12 students. John Piacentini, PhD, ABPP, Director, Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES) joins his colleagues, Monica Wu, PhD, Kate Sheehan, LCSW, and Emily Ricketts, PhD in discussing common manifestations of anxiety. Video vignettes engage the learner to better understand various ways in which anxiety may thwart a child’s academic, emotional, and social development. Practical strategies for individual and classroom use are offered ...

 Course
  1 hour, 30 minutes
  Added on 9/24/2024
My Anxiety Monster

Create your own "monster" to show how your anxiety looks and feels. Open to all ages, this activity invites you to see anxiety as a separate thing with its own preferences and wants and needs (that might differ from your own). See some examples of anxiety monsters in our family training program. Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

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  Added on 9/24/2024
Recognizing and Managing Anxiety at Home

These videos are for parents and caretakers trying to support and encourage kids and teens with some of the most common anxiety symptoms. Short animations demonstrate ways that anxiety can show up at home and out in the community. Our anxiety "monsters" help illuminate what it can be like to live with anxiety in our heads and in our habits. Our experts offer insights, tips, and best practices to limit how much anxiety can get in the way of what kids could do. Click on any ...

 Course
  Added on 9/24/2024
Videos

Prefer to learn by watching? Here is a collection of our videos, short and long, offering quick insights and longer lessons. Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

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  Added on 9/24/2024
Low Anxiety Desk Space

Do you find yourself avoiding your desk because all you associate with it is anxiety and work? Use this printable tool to redesign your desk space to minimize anxiety and maximize mindful productivity. Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

 Article
  Added on 9/24/2024
Sensory Toolkit and Sensory Kit on the Go

Approaching tasks can be difficult when anxiety is getting in the way. Having a sensory toolkit nearby can help lower levels of anxiety so that you can regroup to approach the task at hand. Use this printable tool as a guide for creating your own Sensory Toolkit organized around the five senses. Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

 Article
  Added on 9/24/2024
My Anxiety Toolkit (Sophia)

This example of a high school student's completed worksheet shows how one teen might identify their own anxiety warning signs and successful coping skills. Click on any of the “Keywords” below or “Relevant categories” above right for even more resources.

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  Added on 9/24/2024