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Anxiety in the Schools: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions for Academic Anxieties

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Student experiences with anxiety in academic settings are on the rise, but there are limited structures in place to effectively identify and support the needs of learners with a wide variety of threat perceptions and response profiles. This chapter uses the Emotional Information Processing (EIP) model to examine the broad construct of academic anxiety in a framework that enables specific identification and intervention efforts. Connecting established models of anxiety, coping, and emotion regulation, the EIP merely provides a simplified structure for educational professionals to identify primary areas where learners develop debilitating perceptions of threat in academic settings. Recognition of these perceived stressors and related goal structures are then used to develop intervention strategies where the learner can reinterpret the perceived stressors or develop competencies and confidence to manage academic challenges.

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Cassady, J.C. (2022). Anxiety in the Schools: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions for Academic Anxieties. In: Gonzaga, L.R.V., Dellazzana-Zanon, L.L., Becker da Silva, A.M. (eds) Handbook of Stress and Academic Anxiety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12737-3_2

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