The Exploring Anxiety Discussion Questions worksheet educates students about anxiety and encourages group discussion on triggers, reactions, and coping skills. This is a nice tool you might want to use with students that are having anxiety issues. Here is a link: https://www.psychpoint.com/worksheets/documents/exploring-anxiety-discussion-questions.pdf

Among teens and their parents, anxiety can be a misunderstood condition. While some feel that kids will “just grow out of it,” the research shows that this simply is not the case. Anxiety is a normal reaction to life’s many stresses, but those suffering from anxiety disorders are affected way more by everyday life stress Read More

1. The 5 Whys For students experiencing anxiety, the experience can be frightening. This can be worsened if the student doesn’t understand the cause of their anxiety or is unable to express their feelings well. Developed by Sakichi Toyoda during the Japanese revolution, this technique involves asking the question “why” five times. Starting with a Read More

Purple.com recently  published a guide on the relationship between anxiety, mental health, and quality of sleep. Sleep quality and mental illness can greatly impact each other. They created the guide to educate people on how to achieve a good night’s sleep while living with an anxiety disorder.  The guide covers how anxiety and sleep are Read More

When your students finally decide on a college they might think their job is done and they can relax until the first day of school. Not so fast! There are still lots of things to do before they set foot on campus. Here is a list of 7 things that Her Campus put together that Read More

In May a summit was hosted by College for Every Student to focus on ways to ensure that students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, have the skills and training necessary to thrive in an increasingly competitive environment. The two day event was also sponsored by the GE Foundation and Trinity College Dublin. While a variety Read More

An online survey was recently administered by the Harris Poll that looked at the emotional preparedness of students to attend college and how those that were less emotionally prepared fared versus their peers. The survey sponsors were the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit group that works to protect the emotional and mental health of students, the Read More