PSP 045: OCD and Anxiety in School: The Most Misunderstood Students

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Anxiety, Ocd Therapy, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Ocd, Health & Fitness, Ocd In Children, Parenting, Mental Health

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🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sarah sits at the back of the room. Her face has gone pale. Her hands are getting clammy. The teacher hands out the test. She feels nauseous, confused. The room starts to spin. She runs out of the room. The teacher stares at the empty seat. What just happened? OCD and Anxiety in school are often an unnoticed or mislabeled issue. They are the quiet kids who are afraid to raise their hands. The aggressive kids who are feeling cornered and trapped. The perfectionist kids who never hand in work because it’s not perfect. They are the kids that don’t participate, are frequently absent and know the nurse by her first name.***

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0:00.0	Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.
0:07.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:11.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT parenting
0:15.9	survival podcast. Today I want to talk to you about issues around school and this is a big topic because anxiety and OCD are very
0:28.4	misunderstood in the school environment. They are often missed because a lot of anxious kids and a lot of kids with OCD are not on the radar.
0:38.0	They are quiet. They're not a problem.
0:41.0	And so sometimes their issues aren't noticed.
0:46.0	Their issues are also easily misinterpreted because we'll go through it.
0:51.8	Most of the behaviors that an anxious child or child with the OCD
0:55.9	would struggle within school can be accredited to something totally different.
1:01.1	And that's where a lot of teachers and administrators
1:04.7	stumble because they mislabel the behavior. On the flip side there are those kids
1:11.2	that when cornered or feeling trapped become very oppositional and very aggressive
1:18.0	and those behaviors are also often misunderstood and mislabeled as oppositional or difficult or the focus turns to the parent.
1:30.0	What is the parent doing at home to create such horrendous behavior.
1:35.0	And that's really upsetting too because it's not the parent's fault,
1:40.0	the parent doesn't need more blame or guilt added on to the parental struggle that's already
1:45.6	existing. So I wanted to make this episode to one talk directly to teachers, administrators,
1:52.4	and people in the educational environment and say,
1:55.4	hey, these are all the things I want you to look out for.
1:59.0	Because as an educator, you already have your plate full.
2:04.1	Like you have to learn how to teach kids and how to engage kids.
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