St Matthew's Academy Family Learning
Learning resources and events for parents/carers and pupils
Returning to school may be difficult for your son or daughter. Here you will find advice and tips to help them stay calm. By trying different techniques, you can build a tool kit that will help to ease anxiety.
helping your child to cope with anxiety
https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/learning-at-home/covid19/
Week 4 of our programme looks at developing a tool kit that will work for your child. You will find the links to the videos and booklets below for you to download.
Action plan for stressful situations
Little Book of Health and Wellbeing
Key themes for week 3
*Fight or Flight is part of our response to situations. Our brain responds in the same way no matter the severity of the situation.
*We can’t feel good all of the time. Experiencing loss, stress, anxiety, anger at the appropriate time actually helps us to feel happier in the longer term.
*To minimise acute periods of anxiety/stress, support your brain to think in the present (avoiding unhelpful thinking) through self care and mindfulness. This takes time to regulate your thoughts which we know impacts on our feelings and behaviour.
*Supporting your child to develop an emotionally rich vocabulary to name feelings will help them to recognise how they feel towards situations. In turn this can help to change thoughts/behaviours. (emotion wheel)
*Being able to understand your tolerance to situations and know where to seek help from yourself or others (Emotion thermometer)
*Persevering with the tools will help your child to make sense of different situations, understand their reaction (emotional or behavioural). It can help to form an action plan to manage situations/feelings effectively. (e.g. 5 factor model, thought record, identifying unhelpful thinking styles to change perspective/behaviour).
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Week 1 – Supporting Young People’s Health & Wellbeing
Anxiety
Click on the links below to download the worksheets mentioned in the video.
https://nacfamilylearning.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131305057/thoughtrecordsheet7_1.pdf
https://nacfamilylearning.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131305057/5_factor_model_1.pdf
https://youngminds.org.uk/blog/what-to-do-if-you-re-anxious-about-coronavirus/