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1 online resource |
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Chapter We all have thoughts running through our minds. Thoughts can be helpful and let us work things out and solve problems. I'ma bit worried about starting my new class on Monday. I think I'll call my friends to see if they want to meet over the weekend. Maybe they're feeling the same way too ... Tom hasn't replied to my text yet. That's not like him. I wondifer if I should call him to see if he's OK, or send another text ... -- chapter Thoughts can get stuck when we worry about things, or feel stressed or undifer pressure. Sometimes, thoughts can become stuck when we feel tired or physically unwell. Look back at my story. When did my stuck thoughts happen? Write or draw about them on the hamster wheel below. -- chapter I worried about spelling tests and getting full marks every time. My stuck, bossy thoughts told me I had to do things to get full marks. Look back at my story and write about my stuck, bossy thoughts on the hamster wheels below |
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This is a focus on intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviour, linked to exam anxiety. Everyone knows Gemma always gets thing 'right' and is top of the class. However she feels under pressure to do well in the Year 5 tests and is becoming increasingly worried. She thinks she has to do certain things to continue to do well and get 'top marks', such as avoiding the cracks in the pavement. This habit starts to take over and Gemma wonders why she is doing this. As the story progresses, Gemma is helped to understand how it can be normal for anxiety and stress to affect thoughts. The metaphor of having a bully in her mind, making her do things she doesn't really want to do, is introduced. She decides to stand up to her inner bully before it takes over. The accompanying, 'Let's talk about. when thoughts get stuck, ' highlights how stress and pressure can affect us, including some of the 'catastrophising' and 'black and white' thinking errors that can be linked with exam stress and pressure. Paul Nagel has worked as an educational psychologist for 17 years. This has included working as a Lead Professional Educational Psychologist managing a traded service, as well as holding Senior Specialist posts for early years and disability. Over the years Paula has worked in multi agency teams within paediatric services, youth offending teams, Sure Start and an anti bullying service. She is currently Principal Educational Psychologist (North) for the national children's mental health charity, Place2Be. Before qualifying as an Educational Psychologist Paula was a primary school teacher. Gary Bainbridge is an artist, comics creator and secondary school Art, Photography and Media Studies teacher from Durham. He's best known for the North East based kitchen sink superhero comic Sugar Glider and the Newcastle-set crime fiction comic, Nightbus. Gary teaches at an academy in Northumberland |
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"A Speechmark book." |
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Test anxiety -- Juvenile literature
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Students -- Psychology.
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Anxiety -- Treatment
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JUVENILE NONFICTION -- General.
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Anxiety -- Treatment
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Students -- Psychology
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Test anxiety
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Juvenile works
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Electronic book
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Bainbridge, Gary, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781351705219 |
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1351705210 |
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