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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your child have specific fears?  Is the panic because of the medical issues?  Are there things you can do to alleviate the concerns?  [/quote]

That’s the opposite of how anxiety and panic should be treated. OP needs an anxiety expert asap. [/quote]

Are you smoking crack. That PP asked questions, they didn’t suggest an intervention. Idiot.[/quote]

PP suggested “alleviating concerns” which is the opposite of what should be happening. Anxiety is irrational so “alleviating concerns” only feeds it. [/quote]

You not just an idiot you’re a clueless idiot.[/quote]

Um ok … I am actually a person who has been extensively treated for anxiety using evidence based methods. The key to every evidence based method for addressing anxiety and panic is to learn to tolerate the anxious feelings rather than avoiding or accomodating them. Do you have a different evidence based method? [/quote]

I am the PP that you trashed. I have a child who experienced such debilitating anxiety that he eventually got moved out of mainstream. I am well versed in both anxiety treatment and also in school related issues and how schools will handle things.

My questions about cause and suggestion of alleviating concerns are both right on target. Before you can work on the anxiety piece you need to make sure the school is a safe as it can be space for the student. In order to do that you need to identify specific concerns and fix what needs to be fixed. For example, if a kid is anxious because they are being beaten up on the bus, your first step isn’t to teach them to tolerate the idea that it may happen.  You make the bus safe for them. If a kid is anxious about using the student bathrooms due to medical issues, you make different bathroom arrangements through the IEP or 504 process.

In order to give OP insight into what schools do beyond a flash pass, I needed information. [/quote]

My first step in fact would be able to get them to tolerate fears or not reinforcing their fears (conflict, bathroom accidents) while in parallel working on the practical issues. [/quote]

If your kid told you that they were scared to ride the bus because another kid was beating them up, your first step would be to get them to "tolerate" their fear? My first step, and that of any good parent, would be to protect them from getting beaten up. If the kid is *still* scared after the threat has passed, then you work on distress tolerance, but that's not the first thing you do.[/quote]

That’s not at all the situation OP described. She asked about panic attacks  . The overall point is how to treat anxiety not the other accomodations which I assume OP is working on.

But FWIW I have in fact seen a child develop intractable school refusal based on some episodes of kids being mean (or perceived as mean by child.) I think all involved really wish now that the child had never been given the option not to go to school. It really ended up digging a deep hole. [/quote]

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