Anxiety: The Great Inhibitor of Learning
There are many personal issues that can affect the ability of pupils and students to make the most of the educational opportunities available in schools.
Among these one of the most commonly identified is anxiety – a deep nervousness about what will be happening in the future.
This can affect pupils and students worried about what will happen today in school, whether they will have difficult times out of lessons, what will happen after school, and so on.
Perhaps, like many other schools we are working with you have noticed a spike in young people’s anxiety levels since the return to school after lockdown.
Anxiety is often considered alongside depression, but it is important to note the difference: anxiety is about what might happen in the future, whereas depression is a mental state affecting the individual now.
With anxiety the worry about what might happen can be justified – in which case the issue itself causing the anxiety can be dealt with. But it might be imaginary, in that the event causing the anxiety is unlikely to occur or when it does occur might not be a source of worry.
Unfortunately anxiety is rarely removed just by telling the individual that there is nothing to worry about and that their worries are groundless. However, anxiety can be overcome when the young person is helped to understand the condition and its origins.
Support and Funding
Fortunately, there are ways in which pupils and students who suffer from seemingly uncontrollable anger can be helped. Even better, there is funding available to help in work of this nature.
Indeed NLP4Kids has worked with over 100 UK schools to enable them to improve the lives of many children and families.
This includes 2 hours of fully funded practitioner support to every school that needs it with 30 days of access to an online platform of resources for a designated staff member.
If you would like to know about our work in terms of anger management or about any of the other areas in which we work (as shown below) please contact us by calling 0203 6677 294 to arrange to speak to a member of the head office team or email info@NLP4Kids.org
If emailing please do let us know the particular area of our work you are interested in. You may like to know that aside from developing strategies to overcome anxiety we also work with pupils and students who are facing issues related to…
- Confidence Building
- Managing Anger
- Developing Respect
- Anti-Bullying
- Increasing Concentration
- Reducing Exam Stress
- Communicating with Ease
- Enhancing Positive Attitude
- School/College Transitions
Again, if you would like any further information on any of these topics please do call 0203 6677 294, email info@NLP4Kids.org or simply book a convenient time for us to call you using the calendar below.