Anxiety in the Classroom: How to Create a Positive Climate, Build Students’ Resilience, and Resolve Stressful Situations

Anxiety deeply impacts every aspect of a child’s school experience, including academics and learning, interactions with peers, and interactions with teachers, and attendance. But school is also a place for detecting anxiety problems and helping students who struggle with it. This book provides K–5 educators with information that is key to understanding, detecting, and helping students with elevated anxiety levels, as well as guidelines for working with their parents. With practical examples, quick classroom assessments, and simple but powerful tools to help students manage anxiety, it is an essential resource that is scientifically informed and extremely accessible.