Managing Anxiety Social Story & Behavioral Toolkit for Teaching Self-Regulation

Is anxiety a driving force behind your students' problem behavior? Help them learn self-regulation strategies for managing anxiety with social stories, relaxation, and coping skills to prevent anxiety-related problem behavior.

This managing anxiety toolkit contains 2 social stories that focus on helping students learn that using strategies like deep breathing, sensory input, taking a break, and other coping strategies can help reduce anxiety and reduce panic and acute anxiety attacks from developing. The various elements of this toolkit can be customized to fit your individual students and their needs.

Included in this social anxiety toolkit:

• 2 Social Stories focused on strategies for managing anxiety. 
• 2 formats of 5-point scales to use to help students begin to understand self-regulation.
• 4 Pre-Made (and 2 blank) contingency maps to help students see the outcomes of choices in response to anxiety
• 12 Pre-Made Option Cards and 3 blank cards that students can use to remind themselves of strategies to use when they are feeling anxious. Includes 16 visuals to create your own option cards.
• A sensory choice board with 15 common fidget and sensory choices
• A break options board (or individual visuals) with 18 common break activities to help remain calm when anxious.
• A square breathing visual and 2 calm deep breathing visual sequences
• Detailed directions on how to use each of the tools

This toolkit can complement a PBIS or RTI program to help students learn to manage their own behavior in this way. It provides the tools and the directions for taking students from a beginning relaxation technique with deep breathing, through understanding how their social anxiety may be impacting their behavior. And finally, they can use the self-regulation tools to begin to understand when the anxiety is happening and how to reduce their anxious feeling.

Social Anxiety Stories Included:

1. I Can Use Strategies on Worried Days focuses on generalized anxiety with no specific focus. It provides reminders of strategies students can use to reduce anxiety and remain calm.
2. Staying Calm When Things Change focuses on anxiety that occurs due to common changes. It reviews strategies that can be used to help cope with change.

These behavioral tools and strategies have been used successfully with a wide variety of students in a variety of situations and settings including those with autism, developmental delays, emotional disabilities, in general education, in special education,

being served as part of PBIS programs, and being assessed or treated through RTI.

Features you will LOVE:

❤️Pre-made and customizable options for tools

❤️Extensive directions showing how to get started for students who cannot currently self-regulate to students who are ready to start monitoring their own behavior

❤️Each social story is included in 2 formats (1-page and book format). 

❤️Each social story book (1 page per idea) format is also included in a PowerPoint version so that you can easily remove pages you don't need and has an extra page with the same border so that you can add pages and personal pictures to the story as needed.

❤️The toolkit includes a variety of ways to customize each of them including PowerPoint versions with extra visuals. 

❤️And, to save you time and help you implement the program, directions and suggestions of how I use the tools are also included.

Students love these stories because it helps them learn how and why using strategies to prevent bigger problems from their anxious feelings is important. They also help them learn alternatives to their immediate habitual reaction to the anxiety. The tools are part of an overall teaching protocol that is discussed in the directions. But many students can easily be successful at learning self regulation of their behavior with the tools included.

✅ Please check out the preview for a deeper look at what's included and the different formats and sizes for the social stories and tools.

What teachers are saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Great resource for helping students learn to self regulate their anxiety but talk to you about it. I really love the contingency map. It has helped me support a non-verbal student learn how to handle his anxiety and when he feels angry about something outside of our control.” - Julie K.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This resource was a great purchase!  This is a wonderful support for lots of students that struggle with anxiety and need visual support to regulate.  Very helpful!” - Christine H.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This shop is reliable and accurate for supplying relevant, engaging, and appropriate materials for my learners and their specific yet diverse needs.” Amy A. 

For more classroom materials for students with autism and special education:

• I Can Stay Calm: Social Narratives and Visual Supports for Autism
• Social Stories - Waiting for Attention & Getting a Teacher's Attention

⭐️⭐️If you are a member of the Special Educator Academy, this resource is available as part of your membership after your free trial is over⭐️⭐️

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