Test-anxious children and adolescents: Psychopathology, cognition, and psychophysiological reactivity

Investigates test anxiety in children, yielding clinical insights about test-anxious children and adolescents of interest to teachers and psychologists. The authors describe and evaluate recent advances in, for example, diagnostic interviewing, cognitive assessment, and physiological recording, paying particular attention to psychometric considerations and directions for future research. The authors also explore implications for contemporary cognitive-behavioural intervention programs for test-anxious children and adolescents and tentatively recommend cognitive-behavioural strategies for the treatment of test-anxious children and adolescents.