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Back to School, Back to the Body
September anxiety: psychoeducation for children aged 9 to 12 and their parents
Psychoeducation, 11 pages, PDF, instant download.
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September anxiety is usually described to parents as a phase to manage and to children as a feeling to reduce, and both descriptions leave out what the anxiety is guarding. Five sheets help the child find it in the body and test its predictions against last time, while three ask the parent to describe instead of correct. The aim is not a calm child but a child who has been accurately described by an adult who did not rush to fix them.
Abstract
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September anxiety is usually framed for parents as a phase to manage and for children as a feeling to reduce, framings that leave out what the anxiety is protecting. This psychoeducation pack for children aged nine to twelve and their parents works from that premise. Five child sheets explore how the body responds the night before, the list of predictions the mind produces, what the worry might be guarding, the imagined first ten minutes and what actually happened on a previous first day. Three parent sheets ask the adult to describe rather than correct, to notice their own response to the child's anxiety and to record what genuinely helped. The stated aim is not a calm child but a child who has been accurately described by an adult who did not immediately try to fix them.
Who it's for
Child therapists and school counselors, and clinicians who work with parents around the start of the school year.
Contents
- Before you start
- The night before
- The list your head makes
- What it is trying to protect you from
- The first ten minutes
- What actually happened last time
- For the parent: describing instead of correcting, your own September, what helped, honestly
Format and license
- Format
- PDF, 11 pages
- Delivery
- Instant download from your Etsy account once payment clears
- License
- For one therapist's own clinical practice; worksheets may be printed for your clients
- Status
- Educational material for clinicians, not a validated instrument and not clinical advice
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