Full Description
This state-of-the-art resource offers school and clinical professionals a comprehensive approach to addressing test anxiety in students from sixth grade through college and beyond (ages 11 to adulthood). The book uniquely combines acceptance-based behavior therapy interventions with practical strategies for improving study skills and enhancing test performance. By learning to disengage from unhealthy worries, students can decrease avoidance and unlock their academic potential. In a convenient large-size format, the book features sample dialogues and scripts, concrete test-taking guidance, and 27 reproducible handouts that can be downloaded and printed.
This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.
Contents
Preface
I. Understanding Test Anxiety
1. The Nature of Test Anxiety
2. Test Anxiety Matters--But Not in the Way Students Think
3. Clinical Assessment
4. Intervention Research
II. Treating Test Anxiety
5. Treatment Overview
6. Learning about Test Anxiety
7. Mastering Bodily Anxiety
8. Focusing the Mind
9. Studying for Success
10. Doing Your Best on Tests
References
Index
