Anxiety self help resources
Resources for young children
- Stress: Young Person’s Fact Sheet: This workbook helps young children to manage feelings of stress. Credit: WeHeartCBT
- Anxiety: Young Person’s Fact Sheet: This workbook helps young children to manage anxious feelings. Credit: WeHeartCBT
- Understanding The Worry Tree: The worry tree helps young children understand their worries and decide what they can do about them. Credit: CAMHS Professionals
- Fight Flight Freeze – A Guide to Anxiety for Kids: This is a video explaining the fight, flight and freeze response. Credit: Anxiety Canada
- School Anxiety & Avoidance: In this YouTube video Lyra (Aged 10) talks about school-based anxiety and avoidance.
Resources for teens
- Anxiety: Moodjuice self-help guide: This workbook helps young children to understand anxiety and to learn skills to manage it. Credit: MoodJuice
- Anxiety: Young Person’s Fact Sheet: This workbook helps young children to manage anxious feelings. Credit: WeHeartCBT
- Breathing Retraining: This worksheet discusses the role of breathing in anxiety and provides useful breathing techniques to help manage your anxiety. Credit: Centre for Clinical Interventions
- Anxiety: This video helps teens to understand anxiety and useful techniques to manage it. Credit: Anxiety Canada
- Shyness and social anxiety: This workbook helps children to understand social anxiety and learn techniques to manage it. Credit: MoodJuice
- Sunday scaries: Identify Anxious Thoughts with this Mini-Meditation: This video helps children to identify anxious thoughts and take part in a mini meditation to help manage anxious thoughts. Credit: Headspace
- Understanding and coping with anxiety: Part 1 Understanding anxiety: This video helps children to understand and cope with their anxious thoughts. Credit: Oxford Health
- School Anxiety & Avoidance: In this YouTube video Lyra (Aged 10) talks about school-based anxiety and avoidance.
Resources for parents and carers
- The Anxious Child: This workbook helps parents to understand more about anxiety in children and young people. Credit: Mental Health Foundation
- Children and Young People with Anxiety A Guide for Parents and Carers: This workbook helps parents to understand how to support children and young people with anxiety. Credit: Anxiety UK
- 7 ways to support children and young people who are worried: This workbook helps parents to understand how to respond to children and young children’s anxiety. Credit: Anna Freud
- Anxiety tools for parents: This workbook helps parents to support children with anxiety. Credit: Mental Healthy Schools
- Understanding and coping with anxiety: Part 2 How can parents help? This video helps parents to understand how to support a child with anxiety. Credit: Oxford Health
- Anxiety: Top phrases for calming anxious children: This video provides parents with top phrases to help calm and anxious child. Credit: Pooky Knightsmith
- 4 ideas for supporting a child with anxiety: This video helps parents to understand how to support a child with anxiety. Credit: Pooky Knightsmith
- The Worry Tree: This worry tree provides an opportunity to discuss your child’s worries. Credit: Counselling Directory
Useful apps & contacts
- Mindshift CBT: Anxiety Relief on the App Store (apple.com)
- Moodgym: moodgym is like an interactive self-help book which helps you to learn and practise skills which can help to prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety.
- Young Minds Parent Helpline: detailed advice, emotional support and signposting about a child or young person up to the age of 25. Phone number: 0808 802 5544 (9:30am-4pm, Monday-Friday).
- Webchat online support (aged 13-25): Speak to a mental health practitioner or a counsellor through weekly messages or a live text chat: https://www.42ndstreet.org.uk/young-people/one-to-one-support/webchat-online-support/
- Children and Young People: CYP has been designed with young people to help 13-25 years old when they are struggling. Phone Number: 0161 769 5732. Address: 709 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, M19 3AG.
- Calm Connections: This is a parent/carer support service based in Trafford. It was set up to support parents/carers have a better understanding of how to support their child with mental health difficulties. Support is offered through parent support groups, workshops, 1:1 Coaching and closed Facebook groups. For more information email: info@calmconnections.org or phone: 07919 848558. Website: https://calmconnections.org/parent-support.