School Anxiety

This is a guide to anxiety: why we feel it, how we experience it when it strikes, and what we can do when we come under its influence. Across a series of essays that look at the subject from a number of angles, the tone is helpful, compassionate, and in the best sense, practical.

Are you keen to help your autistic child in the situations which cause them stress, worry or anxiety? The advice, insight and strategies in this audiobook are essential for any parent who wants their autistic child to be well, flourish and thrive. One of the biggest challenges for the parent of...

Are you or someone you know struggling with anxiety, worry, or panic attacks? If so, this book is full of proven, tried-and-tested strategies that can start to work immediately and are suitable for all ages. This new and fast-acting self-help audiobook makes a complex illness easier to listen to and understand. With 150 tips and strategies, this book can provide you with anxiety relief.

Soothe back-to-school worries about making friends, fitting in, and staying focused in class with this inspiring book about the comforting power of prayer written by bestselling author Lisa Tawn Bergren. Whether attending a new school or simply facing the unknowns of new teachers, friends, and...

A fully illustrated, practical guide full of essential skills and knowledge that school didn’t prepare us for ‘We all learned how to take tests at school, but then we went out into the world and found ourselves underprepared! And the worst thing anyone can feel is helpless. So I’ve filled...

Guided audio practices to stop fighting your anxiety and start working with it as an untapped source of energy, focus, foresight, and productivity Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you've probably tried the usual options—distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to...

This book helps with the biggest challenges a lot of guys face: anxiety, self-regulation, and executive function. Do you ever feel so anxious at school, during sports, or even just hanging out with people that you feel sick? Do you constantly worry about what others think, overthink everything, and shut down in social situations? Do you chew your nails, bite your lips, zone out, or just want to hide under the covers all day? Do you get angry over small things and then feel bad about it later?

Parenting educator and mum-of-four Gen Muir has helped thousands of families dealing with strong emotions and challenging behaviour in young kids. Fussy eating, bedtime battles, school refusal, public meltdowns, sibling rivalry? Gen shows you how to work with your child through these issues...

You can feel it before you can explain it. The quiet after school that lasts a little too long. The “I’m fine” that doesn’t sound fine. The door that closes more often than it used to. Something is off. And as a parent, you know it. How to Help Your Child When Something Feels Off is a practical, reassuring guide for parents navigating those uncertain moments when a child seems different, distant, or hard to reach.

Back-to-School Anxiety Toolkit: For Parents and Teens by Deacon John O'Maley is an essential guide designed to help both parents and teens navigate the stress and anxiety that often accompany the back-to-school season. With the pressures of academic performance, social challenges, and adjusting to new routines, it’s common for teens to experience anxiety during this time of year. This toolkit provides practical, evidence-based strategies to help teens manage their emotions and build resilience.

Read by Dr Beth Mosley MBE, this audio edition features an exclusive chapter with guidance for parents on what to do if their child does not want to go to school. 'The must-have family handbook - accessible, equipping and game-changing' Anna Mathur, author of Sunday Times bestseller, Mind Over...

Sixteen year old Shelley and her mother move to Honeysuckle cottage in the middle of the countryside, fleeing their fears and anxieties and hoping to put behind them years of suffering at the hands of others. Shelley has endured terrible bullying from the girls who used to be her best friends...

A handbook to console, nourish and gently lead us on the path to emotional balance. There is no simple set of instructions that can guarantee sanity, but if you want to overcome emotional difficulties and become happier, psychotherapist Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents...

Transform Your Fear and Anxiety into Catalysts for Wholeness We all find ourselves in situations that stir up anxiety. And for a growing number of us, our fear and worry have reached debilitating levels. How can we stay balanced and live up to our potential when fear and anxiety seem so easily...

Does your brain replay every awkward moment long after everyone else has forgotten it? That weird pause in class. That text you wish you hadn't sent. That presentation tomorrow your mind has already "failed" twenty different ways. If your thoughts won't stop spinning, if social situations at school feel exhausting, and if overthinking has started to feel like just "who you are", this audiobook was written for you.

DOES YOUR TEEN COME HOME FINE — THEN FALL APART WITHOUT WARNING? You know the moment. The front door opens. Everything seems normal. Then, for a reason that makes no sense from the outside, the entire evening unravels. Your teenager is on the floor. Or gone silent behind a closed door. Or so overwhelmed that no words reach them. You love them completely. You want to help. And you don't know how. This book is a compassionate, research-grounded guide for parents and autistic teenagers navigating one of the most challenging passages of modern family life.

An essential guide to restoring our children’s behavioral health and wellbeing Over the past decade, children’s mental health challenges have reached epidemic levels—stress, anxiety, childhood depression, and suicide are at unprecedented high rates. Amid high-stakes pressure for kids to...

New York Times Bestseller! From the bestselling author of Who Gets In and Why, a must-have playbook for families coping with a more stressful era of startling low admission rates and sky-high prices—one that widens the aperture beyond the Top 25 schools and connects students, parents, and...

Does your teen struggle to focus, meet deadlines, or manage stress? Do assignments pile up, technology overwhelm them, or getting organized feel impossible? You’re not alone—and real help is within reach. If you’ve tried other resources and nothing has stuck, this collection stands apart, offering an encouraging voice, relatable examples, and step-by-step strategies teens can use right away. No lectures. No fluff. Just practical tools that help your teen feel capable, focused, and ready to thrive academically, socially, and personally.

Raising the perfect child...it's our dream as parents. But the reality is: the perfect child doesn't exist. Yet parents everywhere are putting the full-court press on their kids to be perfect, fixating on raising them to be smarter, faster, more successful, and more popular than their peers. And that's making today's parents and their children crazy. In Untying Parent Anxiety, nationally syndicated humor columnist and author Lisa Sugarman reminds us that our kids aren't supposed to be perfect.