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Teacher Anxiety Program for Elementary Students
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Teacher Anxiety Program for Elementary Students and Teacher Anxiety Training for Anxiety. Completed, enrolled 54 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The purpose of the study is to compare two teacher trainings developed to assist elementary students who struggle with excessive anxiety. The goal of both teacher trainings is to improve teachers' knowledge and skills for identifying and assisting students with excessive anxiety. The first training program is called TAPES (Teacher Anxiety Program for Elementary Students) and involves a 6 hour teacher training. Teachers in this training program will implement anxiety reduction skills in the classroom and complete 5 brief (approximately 30 minute) meetings with the student and his or her parent(s)/guardian(s). The second training program, Teacher Anxiety Training (TAT), involves a 3 hour teacher training. Teachers in the TAT condition learn to implement anxiety reduction skills in the classroom, but do not conduct individual meetings with parents and students. The investigators do not know if TAT and TAPES work equally well, or if one is better than the other. Both will be administered by teachers to see if they help youth with excessive anxiety feel less worried.
Study Details
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Interventions
TAPES consists of three core components: 1) training in evidenced-based anxiety reduction strategies that teachers will implement to identify and assist specific anxious students and classroom-wide strategies helpful to all students, 2) evidenced-based material for teachers to review with parents regarding how to reduce student anxiety at home, thus improving school-home communication and shared goals and 3) training in how to conduct 5 brief (30 minute) teacher-parent-student meetings to teach and practice the TAPES anxiety-reduction strategies.
The TAT is a 3-hour professional development training for teachers. Training focuses on recognizing the signs and symptoms related to child anxiety and utilizing classroom-wide strategies to help reduce anxiety in the classroom.