A cognitive-behavioural group treatment for test-anxious adolescents
| Autor: | Peter Paul A. Mersch, Ineke Wessel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment Social anxiety Rational emotive behavior therapy medicine.disease Group psychotherapy Treatment and control groups Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Distress Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Cognitive therapy Psychiatry Psychology Anxiety disorder Clinical psychology Test anxiety |
| Zdroj: | Anxiety, Stress & Coping. 7:149-160 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2205 1061-5806 |
| Popis: | Test anxiety is referring to distress experienced in formal test-taking and social-evaluative situations. Worrisome cognitions appear to be a key factor in test anxiety, and cognitive interference plays a major role in impairing academic performance in test-anxious persons. In the present study the effects of a cognitive behavioural group therapy program on test-anxious high-school students were examined. The treatment was a combination of Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) and gradual in vivo exposure. Students were assigned to either a treatment group (n=22) or a waiting-list control group (n=19). The results show, that the treatment was more effective than a waiting-list control condition on most self-report measures. The treatment group reported a greater reduction of test and social anxiety, less frequent negative self-statements and a greater degree of rationality. |
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