ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the effectiveness of stress inoculation training for the treatment of test anxiety in high school students. The stress inoculation training procedure facilitates the inclusion of multimodal therapeutic techniques that can help students to modify the predisposition to engage in worry cognitions and emotionality reactions and to develop coping skills, such as relaxation techniques and study habits. Stress inoculation training was selected as a treatment procedure because it provides the flexibility for the design of a multimodal treatment that includes the issues previously pointed out. The students are also provided with the opportunity to learn, practice, and use skills to cope with the stress produced by the test situation. Some of these skills were the identification, analysis, and modification of their task-irrelevant worry thoughts; muscular relaxation; and study habits, work methods, and strategies to answer tests, among others.
