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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Introductory Packets
• Affect and Mood Problems related to School Aged Youth (Introductory Packet)
• Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Interventions and Resources for School-Aged Youth (Introductory Packet)

Practice Briefs
• Schools as Caring, Learning Communities: A Center Practice Brief

Quick Training Aid
• Support for Transitions to Address Barriers to Learning

Guides to Practices
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff

Technical Aid
• Protective Factors (Resiliency)
• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Continuing Education Modules
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Direction for Mental Health in Schools
• Note: Section III of this packet, entitled Frequently Identified Psychosocial Problems provides information regarding Anxiety Problems.

Resource Aid Packets
• Student Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role (Resource Aid Packet)
• Note: The section of this packet entitled Brief Information on Medications and their Side Effects provides information on medications for Anxiety Disorders.

Quick Find
• Post-Traumatic Stress

Articles
• Addressing trauma and other barriers to learning and teaching: Developing a comprehensive system of intervention.
• School Avoidance Behavior: Motivational Bases and Implications for Intervention.

Information Resources & Practice Notes
• About Anxiety, Resilience, and Schools
• About Anxiety Attacks
• About Diagnosing Selective Mutism Among English Language Learners
• About the Relationship of Physical Activity to Mental Health and the Role of Schools
• About Pressures on Affluent Students Related to University Admission
• About School Adjustment
• About Social Anxiety and Schools
• About Student Sleep Deprivation
• Addressing Student-Athlete Anxiety
• Back-to-School Anxiety
• Fidgety Students
• Group Work in Education: Addressing Student Concerns
• In-Class Presentations: A Potential Barrier to Success at School?
• Mindfulness and Schools
• A Personal Look at a Student’s Selective Mutism
• Students and Anxiety Problems
• Students in Distress
• Selective Mutism: A Student Reflects on Her Misdiagnosis, Experiences, and Outcomes
• A Student's Perspective of Test Anxiety
• Student Burnout
• Understanding the Mental Health Challenges of First-Generation College Students: A Student’s Analysis

Anxiety Disorders
• 5 tips to ease back-to-school anxiety
• Adulthood Outcome of Tic and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Severity in Children With Tourette Syndrome
• Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• Emotional reactivity to daily events in youth with anxiety disorders
• Family dysfunction and anxiety in adolescents: A moderated mediation model of self-esteem and perceived school stress
• Increasing knowledge about obsessive compulsive disorder and support for parents and schools: Evaluation of initiatives
• OCD in School
• OCD in School Settings
• The relationship between perceived stress and depressive symptoms in adolescents during high stress: The moderating role of emotion regulation
• Role of Social Environmental Protective Factors on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Midwestern Homeless Youth
• School-Based depression and anxiety prevention programs for young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• School-Based Interventions for Anxious Children: Long-Term Follow-Up
• School-Based Intervention for Test Anxiety
• School Functioning and Use of School-Based Accommodations by Treatment-Seeking Anxious Children
• Social Anxiety in Children with Anxiety Disorders: Relation with Social and Emotional Functioning
• What Do Youth Referred for Anxiety Problems Worry About? Worry and Its Relation to Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• What Schools Can Do to Ease Students' Anxiety

Selective Mutism
• Personalized Individual and Group Therapy for Multifaceted Selective Mutism
• Selective Mutism: A review and integration of the last 15 years
• Selective Mutism Group ~ Childhood Anxiety Network
• Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment (SMart) Center
• The Selective Mutism Treatment and Research Center
• Social communication anxiety treatment for children and families with selective mutism
• What Teachers Should Know About Selective Mutism in Early Childhood

Comparison Trap
• Normalizing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diagnosis of Anxiety
• Social Media Social Comparison of Ability (but not Opinion) Predicts Lower Identity Clarity: Identity Processing Style as a Mediator
• Social media social comparison and identity distress at the college transition: A dual-path model
• The social media comparison trap
• The comparison trap: changing the negative to a positive

Coping
• Coping with Fears and Stress
• Helping Students Cope with Test Anxiety
• Perceived Peer Integration, Parental Control, and Autonomy Support: Differential Effects on Test Anxiety
• School-Based Accommodations and Supports for Anxious Youth
• Test Anxiety in Elementary and Secondary School Students

Treatments and Assessments
• Gender differences in depression, anxiety, and stress among college students: A longitudinal study from China
• How to Help Children with Anxiety
• Internet Addiction and Depression, Anxiety and Stress
• Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders

COVID-19
• The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey
• Effects of COVID-19 on College Students’ Mental Health in the United States: Interview Survey Study
• The Mental Health of High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Pandemic Burnout is Rampant in Academia

Climate Anxiety
• Climate change: youth in action
• Climate change resources: youth
• Climate change is here. These 6 tips can help you talk to kids about it
• Coping with climate change: Advice for kids -- from kids
• Empowering Schools to Take Climate Action
• English Teachers Concerned about Climate Crisis

 

Related Agencies and Websites
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America
• Mental Health/Help Net(MHN)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation, Inc.
• The OCD Resource Center of South Florida
• UCLA Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES) Center

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