Managing Anxiety in Students With Autism or Related Social and Learning Differences—Student Workbook
Facing Your Fears in Schools Student Workbook
Special Education

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.


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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. 

The Facing Your Fears (FYF) program consists of twelve 40-minute sessions that help students with autism or related social/learning needs manage interfering anxiety symptoms. The program is flexible: it can be delivered before or after school or within the school day; in 40-minute weekly lessons or in more frequently occurring 20-minute lessons; and in small groups of 2–5 students or individually with a school psychologist or counselor, special education teacher, or other school provider. FYF is evidence-based, has been shown to reduce anxiety in students with autism, and is an ideal way to increase student access to critical mental health interventions in school.

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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

 

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

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