The Understanding and Managing Worry workbook is a child-friendly resource designed to help children recognise, understand, and manage their worries. Through engaging explanations, interactive worksheets, and practical strategies, this resource teaches kids how their brains and bodies react to worry and provides simple coping tools to help them feel more in control.
What’s Inside?
- Why do we worry? – Explains how the brain’s fight, flight, or freeze response works and why we sometimes feel nervous or scared.
- How worry affects the body – Helps children identify physical symptoms like a racing heart, sweaty hands, or butterflies in the stomach.
- Recognising worry responses – Teaches children how to spot when they react with fight, flight, or freeze in different situations.
- Self-reflection activities – Encourages kids to think about how they usually respond to worry and identify patterns in their reactions.
- Creating a personal help plan – Guides children in choosing calming strategies and small steps they can take when they feel anxious.
- Coping tools and relaxation techniques – Includes breathing exercises, grounding activities, and self-talk strategies to help children manage worry effectively.
How Can the Resource Be Used Practically?
- One-on-one discussions – Parents, teachers, and therapists can use the worksheets to help children talk about their worries and explore coping strategies together.
- Classroom and group activities – Educators can introduce the fight-flight-freeze response in a fun, interactive way to help students recognise and manage their anxiety.
- Daily emotional check-ins – Children can use the workbook regularly to track their feelings and practice helpful coping skills.
- Therapeutic support – Social workers, counsellors, and mental health professionals can incorporate the workbook into therapy sessions to help children develop emotional resilience.
- Personalised worry plan – The help plan section allows children to write down or draw calming strategies they can use whenever they feel anxious.
This practical and engaging workbook helps children understand their worries, develop emotional awareness, and build confidence in managing their feelings. By using these strategies, children can reduce anxiety, feel more in control, and respond to stress in a healthier way.
