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Separation Feelings: Goals of The Exercise

This document outlines goals and suggestions for a therapist's exercise on separation feelings. The goals are to increase awareness of separation-related feelings, improve the ability to express anxiety, explore irrational thoughts that cause anxiety, and recognize fears are often unrealistic. The therapist should have the child identify a specific anxious experience, draw a picture of it, and use it in therapy to identify triggers and fears and assess their rationality. Addressing separation anxiety can also help with depression, self-esteem, and specific phobias.

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Separation Feelings: Goals of The Exercise

This document outlines goals and suggestions for a therapist's exercise on separation feelings. The goals are to increase awareness of separation-related feelings, improve the ability to express anxiety, explore irrational thoughts that cause anxiety, and recognize fears are often unrealistic. The therapist should have the child identify a specific anxious experience, draw a picture of it, and use it in therapy to identify triggers and fears and assess their rationality. Addressing separation anxiety can also help with depression, self-esteem, and specific phobias.

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Therapist’s Overview

SEPARATION FEELINGS

GOALS OF THE EXERCISE

1. Increase the awareness of feelings associated with separation.


2. Increase the ability to verbalize feelings of anxiety.
3. Explore the irrational cognitive messages that produce anxiety.
4. Increase the awareness that fears are irrational and/or unrealistic. Increase the ability to
examine the experience objectively regarding the low probability of danger, harm, or other
feared consequences.

ADDITIONAL HOMEWORK THAT MAY BE APPLICABLE


TO SEPARATION ANXIETY

• Anxiety Coping with Anxiety Page 45


• Anxiety Unrealistic Fears Page 51
• Anxiety Managing Anxiety Page 55
• Anxiety Stress Management Page 59
• Anxiety Relaxation Page 63
• Depression Rewriting Cognitive Page 130
Distortions
• Self-Esteem Thinking Positively Page 291
• Self-Esteem Wishes Page 308

ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS FOR WHICH THIS EXERCISE MAY BE USEFUL

• Depression
• Self-Esteem
• Separation Anxiety
• Specific Phobia

SUGGESTIONS FOR PROCESSING THIS EXERCISE WITH CLIENT

Young children frequently have difficulty expressing anxiety and fears. Helping the child to
identify and verbally express fears can be therapeutic.

Instruct the child to think of a time when he/she was anxious. It may be helpful to have the child
identify a specific time when he/she was anxious. The child will complete a drawing that focuses
on this event and bring the drawing to the next therapy session.
Therapist’s Overview

By focusing on a specific event within the therapy session, the child can be encouraged to
identify precipitants and fears as well as begin to recognize strategies for managing anxiety more
effectively.

The therapy session can also be used to assess whether these fears are rational and begin to focus
on evidence that contradicts these fears.
EXERCISE XXII.C

SEPARATION FEELINGS

Describe a time when you were anxious:

Draw a picture of this event

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