Coping with anxiety involves using strategies to manage overwhelming feelings of worry or fear. It often includes techniques like taking deep breaths, staying focused on the present, and changing negative thoughts into more positive ones.
The Coping with Anxiety worksheet helps kids identify and handle their feelings of worry by writing them down. Moreover, it provides a list of easy-to-follow coping skills with checkboxes. These coping skills are categorized into Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, and Thinking. If there are other coping skills they know that help them feel less worried, they can write them down in the spaces provided.
When kids do these exercises, they learn to manage their feelings, which sets the groundwork for better mental health. After completing the worksheet, kids can enhance their emotional intelligence by keeping a daily journal where they express their thoughts and feelings. Additionally, this Anxiety Coping Skills for Kids handout is an excellent resource that introduces more techniques to further manage and regulate their emotions.
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References:
- Dealing with anxiety and related disorders: Understanding, coping, and prevention. (2012). Choice Reviews Online, 49(08), 49-4758-49-4758. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-4758
- Legerstee, J. S., Garnefski, N., Verhulst, F. C., & Utens, E. M. (2011). Cognitive coping in anxiety‐disordered adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 34(2), 319-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.04.008
- Washington, T. D. (2009). Psychological stress and anxiety in middle to late childhood and early adolescence: Manifestations and management. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 24(4), 302-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2008.04.011
