
The Anxious Classroom
Vital Everyday Strategies for Teachers to Help Children 4-11 Thrive
$48.79
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2026
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 |
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| 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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