d'Estrubé, Shirley W.2025-06-272025-06-271976https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22452This review of recently published studies concerned with concepts, assessment, and treatments of test anxiety, traces the influence of the current trend toward self-management on behavioral counselling for test anxiety. The principal measures for assessment, the Test Anxiety Scale, the Achievement Anxiety Test, and the Emotionality-Worry Scale, are reviewed in terms of their analysis of the problem and their implications for treatment. A number of current treatment methods employing systematic desensitization and modified behavioral techniques, such as cue-controlled relaxation, relaxation-self-control, coping models, and covert cues, are described and compared, as are also such cognitive strategies as rational-emotive therapy, self-instruction techniques, and "coping self-statements". Outcome studies bringing together cognitive and behavioral components in a single program aimed at both the emotionality and the worry aspects of test anxiety are presented, with special attention given to Meichenbaum's cognitive-behavioral treatment paradigm. The central focus of this review is the question of which treatment paradigm is the most efficient, effective, and appropriate for use by counsellors working among school and university populations. To this end, comparisons are explored, research needs indicated, and implications for the schools suggested. Specific illustrations of treatment methods are included in the appendices for the purpose of providing practical information to counsellors in the field.enAvailable to the World Wide WebThesis