This book is designed to give students and researchers the confidence to understand, assess, treat, and research test anxiety. Marty Sapp presents the various cognitive and behavioral theories of test anxiety along with instruments for measuring test anxiety. He integrates statistical methodology, measurement, and research designs with actual research situations that occur within the test anxiety field. In addition, the SPSS codes for conducting sample reliability and validity are provided along with the codes for finding confidence intervals around population reliability measures. Like the previous edition, the logic of structural equations modeling is presented with the EQS structural equations program. Many researchers view test anxiety as existing of factors such as Sarasons s four-factor model or Spielberger s two-factor model. Both models can be easily analyzed by EQS. In terms of treatment, affective, cognitive, behavioral, hypnosis, systematic desensitization, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and the Eye-Movement Technique (EMT) are presented. This book integrates applied research designs and statistical and measurement methodology that frequently occur in the test anxiety literature, but the methodological treatment of research is nonmathematical. Finally, extensive discussions of treatments for test anxiety are provided.

Test Anxiety adapts the previous edition to the influence of structural equations modeling that has taken hold of test anxiety research, while maintaining the applied research, assessment, and treatment interventions. This book integrates statistical methodology and research design with actual research situations that occur within the test anxiety area. It brings together more than 100 studies that have been published on test anxiety since 1993. Marty Sapp introduces the logics of structural equations and shows how the EQS structural equations program can easily perform structural equations modeling. He presents two statistical packages, SPSSX and SAS, for use in conducting test anxiety research and developing actual empirically based treatment interventions. This allows an easy analysis using common factors such as Sarason's four-factor model or Spielberger's two-factor model. Test Anxiety provides a practical, cutting edge resource for conducting and assessing test anxiety research.

This book provides a contemporary approach to counseling and psychotherapy theories. Many of the chapters are brief, and experiential exercises are presented that help bring the theories to life. Each chapter has an overview and summary, key terms are in boldface type, and many chapters have glossaries. Also, examination questions are provided toward the end of each chapter. This book also provides coverage of the DSM-IV and the new ethical principles of ACA and APA. Contents: Overview; Associated Research: Counseling and Psychotherapy Efficacy Research; Foundational Theories: Criteria for Evaluating Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories; Overview of Traditional Psychoanalytic and Other Prominent Psychoanalysts; Adlerian Counseling: Precursor to Cognitive-Behavioral Theories; Cognitive-Behavioral Theories: Level III Counseling Theories; Bandura's and Other Social-Learning Theories; Ellis's Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy; Multimodal Behavior Therapy; Cognitive Therapy; Cognitive-Behavior Modification; Personal Constructs Psychotherapy; Transactional Analysis: A Primarily Cognitive approach to Counseling; Reality Therapy: A Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling Approach; Affective Theories: Existential Therapy; Perl's Gestalt Therapy: Affective-Experiential Level III Counseling Theory; Roger's Person-Centered Counseling: Levels I and II Counseling Theory; Alcohol and Drug Counseling.