Social anxiety in children and teens

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Is your child struggling with social anxiety?

Children and young people with generalised anxiety disorder have persistent and disturbing worries on a daily basis. Worrying about anything and everything. Generalised anxiety disorder in children and young people can lead to depression if left untreated.

How does social anxiety affect children and young people?

Social anxiety in children and young people is very common with one in eight people reporting some social anxiety in their lives. Often young people with social anxiety will develop symptoms such as feeling stuck on situations that have happened in the past that they feel afraid may happen again, fall into negative thinking traps that they will make a fool of themselves or that others will judge them.

Young people with social anxiety will often avoid situations where they might have to be more social and could have some safety behaviours that they use to avoid embarrassment for example not speaking to teachers for fear of saying the wrong thing. Often these symptoms can impact on a young persons ability to learn social skills.

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When to seek treatment for anxiety in children and teens

It is likely that children and young people struggling with social anxiety may display some of the following symptoms:

Crying or getting upset more often than usual

Getting angry a lot

Avoiding interaction with other children and adults

Fear of going to school or taking part in classroom activities, school performances and social events

Not asking for help at school

What do Onebright offer?

At Onebright, you can work with an accredited CBT Therapist to help you work with your thoughts (cognitions) and your behaviours. They will support the young person to challenge the beliefs that maintain the fear and support them to spot negative thoughts and start to be more realistic about social situations. The therapist will also use a gradual introduction to feared situations to discover that these fears are unfounded. This exposure might feel like a very scary thing to do, but your therapist will help you and never make you do something you don’t feel ready to do. You can also learn some other ‘thinking’ and ‘feeling’ tools to use when anxiety tries to take over and to help you gain back more control.

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Benefit/results for child and family

Working with a therapist to face and overcome your child's difficulties can be a challenging and daunting prospect, but one that can also be extremely rewarding. Working with a therapist, you and/or your child or young person can help you to be able to better understand the difficulties that they are experiencing, and also how to manage and work through them. Working alongside your therapist, you can learn the tools and approaches that work best for you and/or your child to help you take back control and get back to a life that's worth living.

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Begin your journey

The Onebright client liaison team are available Monday to Friday between 9am-5pm (excluding bank holidays).
Your child must be aged 5-17 years to access our therapy services.
Your child’s assessment will cost £100 (this includes consultation and report).
After your assessment, if your child is recommended for therapy, this will cost £150 per appointment.

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