Anxiety-Reduction Solutions

TRAINING is more than information! 

Good advice is not always enough. Good advice on its own is found to produce only a small fraction of the benefits usually obtained from the better anxiety reduction treatments. Anxiety impairs memory, and much of the good advice gets lost amid the high stress of taking an exam.  

 Most of us need a training experience, which guides you step by step as you practice more positive thought patterns and more adaptive responses.  

Recorded CDs and DVDs can train you as a professionally administered protocol would, and can produce similar strong benefits. The recorded protocols structure the learning experience for you, and condition and imprint and embed new associations, so that you respond automatically and do not have to constantly remind yourself during your exams. 

Following are two highly recommended programs produced AMTAA board members.

Tame Test Anxiety Training CD.   $16.00  
Richard Driscoll, Ph.D., Westside Psychology

Lightning-fast training provides substantial benefits in just two 30 minute sessions.
Supporting research is extremely strong. The active control training has produced substantial anxiety reduction and measurable test gains in multiple studies. Notably, the training produced 18 percentile course gains (three-quarters of a letter grade) for 12 college students, half on academic probation, and an 12 percentile gain on standardized testing among 20 highly anxious nursing students (compared to controls). The program is especially beneficial for high school and college students, although more modest test gains have been found for younger students (see research).
The training is brief. The CD training takes 31 minutes, and we recommend you listen to it twice and then occasionally as needed. Benefits tend to last over several years. Schools can easily administer the CD to groups of anxious students, thereby conserving staff time.
The combination of substantial anxiety reduction and robust test gains qualify the training as one of the most promising one to two hour anxiety-reduction programs available anywhere.
See further information or purchase the Training CD

Systematic Desensitization   Free Downloads 
by David B. Ross, Ed.D.,  College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois 

Dr. Ross has recorded the traditional systematic desensitization protocol and has made it available to his college without charge and to us as well.  Listen to his recorded materials on his website, or download the material as MP3 files.   He offers various suggestions including self-talk suggestions which should boost the expected benefits. 
    We are especially grateful to Dr. Ross and to the College of Lake County for making this service available.  
    View Program and Download Recordings (click on Downloadable Recordings)    

The CD Training Experience

Allison took the Active Control Test Anxiety CD Training as a high school junior.   Now two years later, she comments on her experience.  (click on picture)

 

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