Sunday, September 16, 2018

IEP California For Use With School Anxiety Programs

By Walter Parker


It is estimated that worldwide up to 20% of children in the stage of adolescence experience problems related to their mental health. At adolescence, the stage is where gradual growth; in your body, mental strength starts occurring. Most of this time spent at school, it is here where teenagers start getting a taste of stress. It makes perfect sense to have school anxiety programs with IEP California in place to address this issue.

What is anxiety? The simplest explanation is that it is actually constant worrying, it is an expectation of something that might happen, and will I do well in my exams? Will I disappoint my parents? these are just examples of questions among adolescents that might induce anxiousness. The rate of anxiety in girls is usually double compared to the one in boys as both grow.

Negative thoughts perpetuate the negative cycle and don t encourage breaking away from the self-imprisonment. It s about how we interpret what happens, not r just about what happens, this is where bad thoughts actually come in. This is what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tries to deal with the interpretation of thoughts to help curb them resulting in negative action.

Always remember thoughts aren t facts, they spring up anytime what makes all the difference is your response to them. They always trigger feelings, but in between these two, there s an interpretation which is what contributes greatly to how you feel. Learn to observe your feeling and ask yourself what was the interpretation that resulted in your feeling.

Introduce questions that help break the cycle and this is a thing you must constantly practice. Questions that help you begin to wonder if the thought of you having is helpful; what can I do to prove or disprove this thought; is there any alternative explanation? How else can I explain the thought I m having? How useful is the thought I m having? What can I practically do now?

It s commonly observed that when the same programs offered by community clinics are offered at school there suddenly becomes a higher level of utilization, for both low-income adolescents along with medical aid enrolled counterparts, than when the treatment was external to the school facilities. This is due to the ease of accessibility and the positive attitude towards mental health care fostered by the location of service.

Notice those negative thoughts and behaviours, note them in a journal, have a conversation around it and begin practising the process of counteracting them. Most thoughts, emotions and behaviours happen unconsciously and you re not aware of them, so Journaling your thoughts help you reflect on your thinking patterns. Journaling makes you recognize your values and beliefs; it helps you clarify your thoughts and your feelings. This helps you know yourself better and even get to view yourself objectively.

Gaps exist in our knowledge base so there s still more room for research to be done. The disadvantage has been depending on specialized mental health clinicians, a costly and resource-intensive proposition. A more cost-effective move anyway from this is training school-based personnel such as teachers and school counsellors so that they can then deliver these services.




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