The article deals with the organization of psychological and pedagogical support of preschool children with manifestations of anxiety. The methodological basis of psychological and pedagogical support is a personality-oriented approach, within the framework of which the basic principles, forms and methods of interaction with anxious children in pre-school conditions are formulated. The program of psychological and pedagogical support proposed by the authors was developed on the basis of studying the degree of severity and specificity of anxiety in preschool children. In the course of the study, the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the effectiveness of overcoming anxiety in the development of the personality of preschool children in the educational process of a preschool organization were determined.

Research objectives: the study of the peculiarities of the manifestation of anxiety in preschool children and the development of a program of psychological and pedagogical support in the preschool organization of education.

 Research methods: theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, study and analysis of pedagogical, organizational and methodological documentation; generalization of pedagogical experience; systematization, modeling.

Results. A draft program of psychological and pedagogical support for children with a high level of anxiety in the educational process of a preschool organization is proposed.

The scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the work consists in expanding and clarifying scientific ideas about the features of anxiety in preschool children in the context of involvement in the educational process; determining the organizational and pedagogical conditions of psychological and pedagogical support for children with anxiety in preschool education.

Practical significance of the work. The generalized results of the study can be used in the activities of educators, educational psychologists and other specialists of preschool organizations; in diagnostic and psychocorrective work; in the preparation of programs, methodological materials to help preschool children with anxiety.