Facing Your Fears in Schools Student Workbook: Managing Anxiety in Students With Autism or Related Social and Learning

This workbook guides students ages 8–14 through the Facing Your Fears program, a highly effective cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program designed to help students with autism or other social/learning needs face and manage anxiety.

Throughout Sessions 1–12, students will participate in a variety of activities illustrated throughout this workbook.

While the workbook is available as a fillable PDF with the purchase of the Facing Your Fears manual, this printed version provides a convenient alternate option for programs that don’t have the ability or desire to print the student workbook.

About Facing Your Fears: A typical school day can be full of anxiety triggers for students with autism or other social/learning needs. Help autistic students face and manage their fears—and overcome a major obstacle to school success—with this CBT program designed for use with students ages 8–14.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

• About the Video Clips and Downloads
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments

Introduction

At A Glance - Outline for Facing Your Fears in Schools Sessions

I Program Introduction and Psychoeducation

• Session 1 Welcome to Group: Getting to Know Each Other
• Session 2 What Makes Me Worried/Upset, and How I React
• Session 3 Time Spent Worrying and/or Being Upset: Managing Upset/Worry
• Session 4 False Alarms: Learning to Calm My Body
• Session 5 Managing My Mind: Active Minds/Helpful Thoughts
• Session 6 Plan to Get to Green: Putting it All Together - Calming My Body/Managing My Mind

II Graded Exposure

• Session 7 Introduction to Facing Fears
• Session 8 Creating Steps to Success/ Practice Facing Fears
• Session 9 Practice Facing Fears
• Session 10 Practice Facing Fears
• Session 11 Practice Facing Fears
• Optional Pre-Graduation Session Making a Facing Your Fears Movie
• Session 12 Graduation

III Family Sessions

• Parent Contact 1 Introduction to Facing Your Fears Group
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Anxiety in Students
• Facing Your Fears - School-Based Version: Program Overview
• Parent Contact 2 Introduction to Facing Fears
• Practice Facing Fears: Cycle of Anxiety

Appendices

• Appendix A Group Screening Process for Facing Your Fears in Schools
• Appendix B Sample Fear Hierarchies
• Appendix C Conducting Successful Exposure Practice
• Appendix D Frequently Asked Questions
• Appendix E Fidelity Checklists

References

Index