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CFIS CAF ( C ollaborations in A ffective F ulfillment in E ducation): Anxiety & School (and Personal) Performance Dr. Brent Macdonald, R. Psych (AB, PE) Consulting Psychologist w CFIS Rationale Anxiety has been Goals identified

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CFIS CAFÉ

(Collaborations in Affective Fulfillment in Education):

Anxiety & School (and Personal) Performance

  • Dr. Brent Macdonald, R. Psych (AB, PE)

Consulting Psychologist w CFIS

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Rationale

  • Anxiety has been

identified by different groups within the CFIS community as an area of concern (parents, teachers, students)

  • Students have expressed

an interest in learning more about anxiety and how to deal with it

  • Goals
  • Provide students with

information about the nature

  • f anxiety (biological, social,

academic, environmental, sources)

  • Provide students with insight

into their own individual anxieties/ stressors

  • Provide students with a voice
  • Provide students with

strategies for working through anxiety – and making the most of positive anxiety

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Student-Based Goals

  • Teachers involved – do

students want some time w/o teachers

  • What do YOU want out
  • f this
  • Biological basis
  • Perfectionism/ standards
  • Teachers are “good” at the

academic game

  • Letting things go
  • Prioritizing
  • Sleep Hygiene
  • Relational Anxiety
  • What teachers & parents

need to know

  • Homework Anxiety

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Defining Anxiety & Stress

  • Nonspecific response to real or imagined

challenges or threats

  • How we view the problem/ challenge is really

important

  • We must perceive the stimulus to be

threatening to experience stress

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Social Context: Sources of Anxiety

Endogenous (Internal)

  • Desire to be liked
  • Fear of failure
  • Drive for Perfectionism
  • Lack of confidence
  • Wanting to please
  • thers

Exogenous (External)

  • Social media
  • Grades
  • Athletic performance
  • Fine arts performances
  • Imaginary Audience
  • Peers
  • Family
  • School

Brent Macdonald, Ph.D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

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Responses to Anxiety & Stress

  • Body
  • Increased heart rate
  • Increased

respirations

  • Shallower

respirations

  • Higher blood

pressure

  • Sweaty palms
  • Pupil dilation
  • Behavioral
  • Disorganization
  • Ineffective behavior
  • Can be helpful (i.e.

preparing for tests)…

  • …but usually isn’t

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

Blink

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More Signs of Anxiety

  • Physical
  • Perspiration
  • Facial flush (i.e. blushing)
  • Muscle tension (esp. neck/ shoulders)
  • Hyperventilating
  • Watery eyes

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Signs of Anxiety

  • Nervousness
  • Difficulty reading/ understanding questions that you would

usually understand

  • Difficulty organizing thoughts
  • Doing poorly despite knowledge of materials
  • Test/ task avoidance
  • Feelings of anger/ frustration/ sadness

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Signs of Anxiety

  • In your brain:
  • Going blank
  • Remembering the correct answers after writing a test
  • Difficulty focusing
  • Distractible

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Anxiety Symptoms

Young adults often display the following:

  • Can affect academic performance
  • Parents are often the ones to indicate to the school the intensity
  • f their child's worries

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

Physical complaints High rate of school absence Tendency toward perfectionism Irritable Test anxiety Fixate on worries Internalizing/externalizing behaviours Low coping skills Social challenges Difficulty concentrating

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Effects of Anxiety

  • Lower neurocognitive control
  • Need for brain/ CNS to work harder with the same or even

diminished resources

  • Anxiety = enhanced awareness/ attention to “threatening”

stimuli; results in less attention for other stimuli

Brent Macdonald, Ph.D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

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Eustress (Selye, Lazurus)

Brent Macdonald, Ph.D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

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Perfectionism

Perfectionism

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

Procrastination

Paralysis

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Communicating with Parents

  • How to communicate that you are anxious
  • How to communicate/ ask what their expectations of you

might be?

  • How to communicate expectations today v. back in the day

(generational forgetting)

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Stress

  • Stress is normal up to a point and can be optimal for certain

performance related tasks.

  • Stress becomes a problem when it interferes with a person’s

ability to do daily life tasks over a period of a few weeks or impacts their health in a dangerous or risky way.

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

A marked and persistent fear of

  • ne or more social
  • r performance

situations in which the person fears that embarrassment may

  • ccur.

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Core Symptoms

  • Immediate anxiety responses or panic attack upon

exposure of the situation

  • Avoidance or extreme distress
  • Excessive concerns about embarrassment, negative

evaluation, and rejection; processing social situations negatively

  • Reports of autonomic symptoms and sensations
  • Younger children: illnesses, crying
  • Youth: fears of blushing, avoid others

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Social Anxiety in School Settings/Home

Peer Relationships

  • Limited friends
  • Reluctant to join

group activities

  • Loneliness
  • Shy, quiet
  • Peer victimization

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

School

  • Reading aloud
  • Request for

assistance

  • Unstructured peer

encounters (PE, change rooms, bus, recess, lunch…)

  • Working in groups
  • Test taking

Home

  • Avoidance of

extended family gatherings, answering the phone or doorbell

  • Refuse to order

for themselves in restaurants

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Coping

  • Factors influencing coping
  • Resilience – flexibility and adaptiveness to external

changes/ demands

  • Coping strategies
  • Emotion-Focused vs. Problem-Focused Coping
  • Proactive coping

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Eisenhower Matrix

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Test Anxiety

  • Mild to severe negative reaction to test

situations

  • Typically associated with misperception of

performance

  • Magnified by lack of preparation and excessive

worry

  • Follows cycle (Panic --> Difficulty Concentrating
  • -> Memory Retrieval Problems…)
  • Irrational Thinking (“Yup, gonna fail THIS one –

badly!” – and “If I fail, my parents will kill me.”)

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Test Anxiety Prevention

  • Before the Test:
  • Awareness of Emphasis
  • Study Environment
  • Consistency of Homework/ Review
  • Familiarity with Format
  • Asking for Help
  • Flashcards
  • Peers

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Test Anxiety Prevention

  • Pre-Read the Test
  • Be Positive
  • Taking Breaks
  • Prioritize
  • Answer Everything
  • Time Management

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Okay, so you’re stressed out anyway…

  • Management
  • Idea is to control; make stress your weak little friend
  • Relaxation
  • Breathing
  • PDMR (make a fist…)
  • Breaks
  • Affirmation

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Test Anxiety - Reducing Anxiety

1) Breathing 2) Total Tension Release 3) Progressive Muscle Relaxation 4) Breaks 5) “Mental Vacation” 6) Awareness of Environment

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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BC Youth Website

  • http://youth.anxietybc.com/anxiety-101
  • It is an AWESOME site for adults and kids

Brent Macdonald, Ph. D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com
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Resilience

How we adapt to environmental adversity

Protective Factors

  • Self-efficacy
  • Ability to organize and

execute tasks effectively

  • Adapting to past and

current stressors more effectively

  • Structure and routine
  • Social adeptness
  • Family & social supports
  • Involvement in

community/ school

Risk Factors

  • Poor problem solving

strategies

  • May be related to poor

executive functioning

  • Unpredictable

environments (home/ school)

  • Social errors
  • Neglect/ abusive
  • Isolation

Brent Macdonald, Ph.D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

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Contact Us

  • Dr. Brent Macdonald

Macdonald Psychology Group brent@complexlearners.com @CalgaryPsychDoc Macdonald Psychology Group complexlearners.com

Brent Macdonald, Ph.D., R.

  • Psych. complexlearners.com

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