Anxiety Resources
Books
"Helping Your Anxious Teen: Positive Parenting Strategies to Help Your Teen Beat Anxiety, Stress and Worry" - Sheila Achar Josephs, PhD.
Workbooks
Biofeedback
The Journey to Wild Divine: techniques in biofeedback using fantasy setting. Children who like Harry Potter and tThe Lord of the Rings like this game.
Apps
For Everyone
Breath 2 Relax: Teaches deep breathing
Calm: Meditation to Relax and Focus
Happify: Helps develop behaviors, developmental skills & positive thinking to improve happiness & life satisfaction
Mandala Coloring Pages: Coloring exercises to relax or get other emotions out through color and art
Mind Relaxation: Nature sounds that you can combine yourself to relax
Muji to Relax: Music that is matched to your mood
Relax Melodies: Nature, animal, and music sounds that can be combined to create a relaxing mood.
SOSH: 60 screens of information and strategies that help to improve relaxation and social skills.
iZen: relaxing light that is controlled by you to accompanied music.
For Younger Children
Balloonanimals: Interactive game to distract the child and promote deep breathing
Calm Kids with Mamphant: For children ages 3-6 yrs. Teaches children conscious breathing to help with concentration, relaxation, coping with uncomfortable emotions, and life enjoyment.
Calm Kids: Guided Meditation: Meditation 1 for ages 4-6 yrs,
For School-Aged Children
Calm Counter: Helps children calm themselves down quickly with visuals and counting backwards
Calm Kids: Guided Meditation: Meditation 2 for ages 7-11 yrs. Helps children learn relaxation. Is used in the UK school System to improve behavior.
Meditation for Children: customized nature sounds for relaxation worry & anxiety, everyday stress, decrease fidgeting, afraid of the dark, and calm & centered focus
Mindfulness for Children: Promotes calm and harmony in families by teaching mindfulness to help focus, resilience, and well being.
Sleeping Zone: Breathing techniques and calming nature sounds to promote relaxation.
Stop, Breathe and Think: The child picks several words to describe how they are feeling and then recommendations are made for guided meditations based on their feelings.
Taming the Anger Monster: Helps with emotional regulation for children having trouble with impulsivity, and anger. Provides 15 techniques to help with anger management.
For Teenagers
At Ease: self-regulation strategies for anxiety and anxious behaviors
Anxiety Free: I can Hypnosis: narrated by Donald McKinnon with a pleasing Scottish accent.
Anti-Stress: Quotes that put stress in perspective - popular with teens
Be Confident: I can Be Anything Program: Helps to adjust mindset by focusing on the here and now and positive thinking as well as relaxation
Booster Buddy: Helps teens improve mental health by checking in with feelings, use of coping skills, tacking tasks, self-care routines, and increased real life socialization
Headspace: Guided Meditation
iMood Journal: helps to track moods, helps the older child or teenager become more in tune with what they are feeling and put names to those feelings.
Mindfulness: Helps the listener become more present in daily life.
Simple Being: Guided meditation with music and soundest promote relaxation.
Smiling Mind: Meditation exercises. The speakers have Australian and British accents.
The Gratitude: Guidelines for how to discover what you have to be grateful for.