Using CBT and Mindfulness to Manage Student Anxiety provides a weekly framework utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to support children who are struggling with anxiety.
This book begins with an overview of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness practices and their use in supporting worry. The 9 weekly sessions are broken down into a ready-to-use lesson complete with an assessment tool, clinician notes for added depth, and a template to support generalization of learning with teachers and guardians. Lessons are focused on connection, building an awareness of emotions, and increasing the student’s capacity to regulate their emotions in a variety of ways. The last portion of this book offers opportunities to continue generalization of emotion regulation skills in the classroom and at home.
Providing practitioners with a ready-to-go structured lesson plan that builds with each session, and tools to assess progress and growth, this book will be a welcome addition to any school-based mental health professional’s library.
Table of Contents:
1 The Presentation of Worry and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
2 What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
3 How Can Mindfulness Support CBT?
4 How to Use this Book
5 Week 1: Introduction/Get to Know Each Other
6 Emotions
7 Our Body and Our Thoughts
8 Changing Thoughts and Working through Problems
9 In and Out of Control/Coping Strategies
10 People That Help Our Thoughts
11 Coping Strategies
12 Student Plan
13 Completion/Next Steps
14 Continued Support for the Classroom
15 Continued Support for Home
