The Anxious Classroom, 9781805018018
Paperback
Unlock anxious children’s potential: build emotional safety and classroom connection.

The Anxious Classroom

Vital Everyday Strategies for Teachers to Help Children 4-11 Thrive

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    30 March 2026

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Summary

Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges facing children in education today, cited as one of the main reasons children do not attend school. While many books help teachers understand mental health, few focus on anxiety - which school staff feel they know the least about.

Emma Connor offers a compassionate, practical toolkit for supporting anxious children in school. Drawing on over 20 years of experience, she combines attachment theory, neuroscience, and effective strategies that fit …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781805018018
ISBN-10:1805018019
Author:Emma Connor
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:30 March 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

The Anxious Classroom is a book that is deeply grounded in compassion, neuroscience and attachment. Full of practical wisdom, it reframes anxiety not as behaviour to be managed, but as communication to be understood. This is a book that will change the way schools see children - and the way children experience school. – Kate Silverton * author of the Sunday Times best-selling parenting books There’s No Such Thing as ‘Naughty’ and There’s Still No Such Thing as ‘Naughty’ *

About The Author

Emma Connor

Emma Connor is a child psychotherapist and director of Your Space Therapies, where she leads creative arts, play and talking therapy services, as well as training and consultancy for schools across the UK. A regular keynote speaker at education conferences, she is also an award-winning contributor to the Professional Education Systems Institute and a senior lecturer at the Institute for Arts and Therapy in Education.

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