Introduction: Anxiety disorder and students
It is believed that everyone faces some problems and difficulties in different aspects of life for many reasons. Life is a mixture of happiness, sadness, hope and challenge. Thus, each person may experience some challenges in life whether economic challenges, educational challenges or social challenges.
Then, even young people can become very anxious in response to the challenges that they face. Some children show high distress, for example when they are separated from their parents, darkness, animals or strangers. These anxieties are short-lived and they may disappear by the time. However, some children suffer from high level of anxiety extreme enough to interfere with the
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However, study about Omani students concludes that almost of 36.9% of students both males and females show higher signs of social phobia (Camino Recovery, 2006). In fact, anxiety disorder has a huge effect on students in Oman in different aspects of life.
Although anxiety disorder is a serious issue in Oman, many people such as, parents and teachers do not know how to deal with anxious students. Therefore, it is very important to find out the strategies that teachers can use to manage students with anxiety disorder in the classroom effectively. This study aims to answer the following question: “To what extent do students experience anxiety disorder in the classroom and how can teachers help them to deal with it?”
Chapter two is the first step to answer this central question by providing some information about anxiety disorder from different sides: the extent of the problem of anxiety disorder in the world (2.1), understanding of anxiety (2.2), anxiety in students (2.3), the effect of anxiety disorder on students (2.4), the importance of teacher’s awareness of anxiety disorder (2.5), and strategies that teacher can use to deal with anxious students