Anxiety at College (Student Well-Being Series)

This illustrated pocket guide offers advice, practical tips and useful exercises to help students manage their anxiety at college. Being away from home for the first time creates new worries, and can exacerbate an existing anxiety condition. Beyond learning how to manage their money or do their own laundry, new college students must learn how to navigate new social groups, increased academic demands, and being away from family for the first time. ANXIETY AT COLLEGE provides tools for these students to identify different kinds of anxiety, how to seek help, and explains what treatment options are available. Included throughout are exercises students can do themselves to help them manage periods of anxiety.The series is written by award-winning student mental health specialist Dr. Dominique Thompson and edited for the U.S. student market by licensed U.S. therapists who specialize in the areas of mental health most affecting the new college student. This easy-to-read guide ensures that students have the tools they need to help manage the new anxieties that can come with their first years away from home and set them up for a successful college career.