Eisner, Elizabeth and Ichikawa, Samantha and Jarvis, Janelle and Slavin, Victoria (2019) Choose your own journey: a preventative tool for pediatric anxiety. Masters thesis, Stanbridge University.
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Abstract
Anxiety is a crippling and debilitating disorder that negatively influences one’s ability to participate effectively in their daily roles and occupations. Anxiety impedes a child’s ability to successfully function as a student, thereby impacting their occupations and falling in the occupational therapy (OT) scope of practice (American Journal of Occupational Therapy [AOTA], 2014). Test-taking is a major component of being a student and having anxiety during tests can lead to poor performance. Currently, 3% of children aged three to seventeen have anxiety (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2011), and 80% of children diagnosed with anxiety are not receiving treatment (Anxiety and Depression Association of America [ADAA], 2018). Research shows that children with anxiety disorders that are left untreated and are at a higher risk to perform inadequately in school. In response to the high prevalence of anxiety in elementary-aged children, we created a “Choose Your Own Journey” story based on Carol Gray’s (2010) Social Story concepts, to promote the learning of adaptive coping strategies to reduce test-taking anxiety and improve a child’s functioning in their role as a student. Future research is needed to determine the effectiveness of the intervention for testing anxiety in elementary-aged children.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Depositing User: | Institutional Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 21:31 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2024 21:54 |
| URI: | http://repository.stanbridge.edu/id/eprint/81 |
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