Back to School – Changes, Anxieties and helpful tools

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Hello and welcome back to the Crossroads page. My name is Rebecca and today I’m going to be talking a little bit about back to school. As many of you know children face a lot of changes going back to school, new teachers, new classrooms, new environments; it can be very overwhelming for kids, especially younger ones but also adolescents as well. With these changes, we can offer support in things such as emotional regulation, breathing, mindfulness, good social interaction skills.

Such skills are common in our DBT teachings such as Dialectical Behavioural Therapies, tenants of mindfulness and interpersonal effectiveness. Interpersonal effectiveness is a very helpful tool for kids to use when they are in social situations that they might find complex or difficult to understand. Interpersonal effectiveness which, in layman’s terms, is the ease of social interaction and proper social interaction can be good for kids to express their feelings and figure out new challenges and situations or environments that may be unfamiliar to them.

Skills such as emotional regulation can complement interpersonal effectiveness so that when children begin to feel overwhelmed or that things may be spiralling a little out of control they can take a step back, recognize their emotions when they come up and use the skills that they have found personally work for them to come down from that place and reestablish a successful connection.

At Crossroads we offer many of these skills, teachings, and support. If you think that your child could use some support going back to school or with some of the new changes in their life, please consider giving us a call. We may be able to support them with some of these practices. Take care. 

Contact us to book an appointment with Rebecca or another child therapy focused Registered Therapist or Psychologist.