My Anxiety Plan (M.A.P.) for children

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 59, No. 4, May 2017, Pages 220-221 News

The Anxiety Disorders Association of British Columbia (AnxietyBC) has launched a free online anxiety management toolkit and step-by-step guide for parents of children with anxiety—My Anxiety Plan (M.A.P.) for children.

The Anxiety Disorders Association of British Columbia (AnxietyBC) has launched a free online anxiety management toolkit and step-by-step guide for parents of children with anxiety—My Anxiety Plan (M.A.P.) for children. The tools in M.A.P. are created using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and M.A.P. can be used to manage 11 different anxiety and anxiety-related disorders.

M.A.P. is separated into five parts and broken down into sessions that the parent can complete with the child. Each part consists of tools and worksheets that the parent can use to help the child learn how to cope with unwanted anxiety. Session activities include understanding what happens to the body when we become anxious, learning how to change the way we think about anxiety, and discovering how to decrease excessive anxiety by gradually exposing oneself to anxiety-provoking situations and activities that were previously avoided. The parent, or parent and child, can work at their own pace to complete the sections. 

M.A.P. for children includes an orientation video on how to develop the personalized anxiety plan by using AnxietyBC’s templates, tools, and worksheets. M.A.P. is available on AnxietyBC’s website at www.anxietybc.com/parenting/creating-a-map. For other resources and strategies for parents, visit www.anxietybc.com/parenting/parent-child. 

AnxietyBC is a nonprofit organization established to promote awareness of anxiety disorders and support access to evidence-based resources and treatment. The organization also developed the free MindShift app, which helps youth and young adults manage anxiety using step-by-step strategies based on psychological treatment.

. My Anxiety Plan (M.A.P.) for children. BCMJ, Vol. 59, No. 4, May, 2017, Page(s) 220-221 - News.


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