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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 437285" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>Youngest has Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). School ramped up her anxiety immensely back in the day. We had things in place in her IEP such as self-contained classes (smaller class size made her less anxious), and allowing her liberal privileges to go to a counselor or another SpED teacher when she started to get panicky. These are the types of things that helped ease her back into school after each short-term hospitalization. One of the things about anxiety is, the fear of what may happen is greater than what actually does happen.. and just getting them to undertand that is important. Once she knew things were in place to help her when her anxiety got worse, she was bettter able to cope. Without anxiety medications, I might add. I think the medications can help with the transition, but the bottom line is she needs to learn coping skills in order to move forward. </p><p></p><p>I don't think the answer for your difficult child is to keep her out of school, if anything, I think that feeds her anxiety that school is some big bad scary place. She can't go through life not facing things that make her anxious. I think your focus needs to be with her therapist, not her psychiatrist... and having that therapist work with the school in putting things in place to help her get back there and back into a normal routine. Don't let her quit trying just because she's anxious. Tell her that she can do this... and that you'll do whatever you can to help her. Getting an IEP in place before the next school year starts should be your top priority, in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 437285, member: 1157"] Youngest has Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). School ramped up her anxiety immensely back in the day. We had things in place in her IEP such as self-contained classes (smaller class size made her less anxious), and allowing her liberal privileges to go to a counselor or another SpED teacher when she started to get panicky. These are the types of things that helped ease her back into school after each short-term hospitalization. One of the things about anxiety is, the fear of what may happen is greater than what actually does happen.. and just getting them to undertand that is important. Once she knew things were in place to help her when her anxiety got worse, she was bettter able to cope. Without anxiety medications, I might add. I think the medications can help with the transition, but the bottom line is she needs to learn coping skills in order to move forward. I don't think the answer for your difficult child is to keep her out of school, if anything, I think that feeds her anxiety that school is some big bad scary place. She can't go through life not facing things that make her anxious. I think your focus needs to be with her therapist, not her psychiatrist... and having that therapist work with the school in putting things in place to help her get back there and back into a normal routine. Don't let her quit trying just because she's anxious. Tell her that she can do this... and that you'll do whatever you can to help her. Getting an IEP in place before the next school year starts should be your top priority, in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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