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Anxiety: Supporting Teens to Support Themselves

As your teenager grows up, they need to handle their own anxiety, with you close by rather than doing it for them.

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You can't sit your teenager's exams for them or smooth every social worry away, however much you'd like to. What you can do is help them learn to manage anxiety themselves, and stay close while they practise.

Some of the ideas are simple, like helping them notice how much worse everything feels after a late night. Others borrow from therapy. Your teen can sort worries into what they can control and what they have to live with, put together a self-soothe box, and become a 'thought detective' who asks whether an anxious thought is really true.

The presenter lives with anxiety herself. Her favourite trick is one your teen might enjoy too, which is to talk to yourself as kindly as you'd talk to your dog.

Modules

10 modules
  1. 1Introduction1 min
  2. 2Wrap Up2 min
  3. 3Just be there6 min
  4. 4When in doubt… sleep7 min
  5. 5Get it out by speaking, writing or creating6 min
  6. 6Controlling the controllable6 min
  7. 7Tolerating the uncontrollable6 min
  8. 8Learning to self-soothe6 min
  9. 9Noticing negative thoughts7 min
  10. 10Talking to ourselves like we’d talk to our dog3 min

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