School-Based Accommodations and Supports for Anxious Youth: Benchmarking Reported Practices Against Expert Perspectives.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol
; 51(4): 419-427, 2022.
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ABSTRACT
Objective:
Although research has examined negatively reinforcing patterns of parental accommodation of youth anxiety, limited research considers school staff-led accommodations for students with anxiety. Further, the extent to which patterns of school staff-led accommodations/supports for anxiety align with anxiety expert perspectives remains unclear.Method:
School staff across elementary, middle, and high schools who identified anxiety as their top student concern (N = 134) were surveyed about their use of 23 anxiety-focused accommodations/supports, as well as their own mental health literacy and emotional exhaustion. A youth anxiety expert panel (N = 28) independently rated the extent to which each of the 23 school-based accommodations/supports could (1) promote youth avoidance of anxiety, and (2) promote youth approach toward anxiety-provoking situations/experiences.Results:
School staff reported using a broad range of accommodations/supports to address student anxiety, but these accommodations were mixed in alignment with anxiety expert perspectives. Although the two most commonly endorsed school-based accommodations/supports were rated by the expert panel as highly approach-oriented, 92.5% of school staff reported using at least one accommodation or support rated by the expert panel as highly avoidance-oriented. Higher emotional exhaustion among school staff predicted greater use of avoidance-oriented supports whereas higher mental health literacy predicted greater use of approach-oriented supports.Conclusions:
Strategies may be needed to reduce the use of avoidance-oriented accommodations/supports with anxious students in school settings. In addition to promoting school staff awareness of expert perspectives on anxiety-focused accommodations/supports, efforts to curb staff burnout may have indirect effects on the quality of anxiety-focused accommodations and supports in school settings.
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Asunto principal:
Instituciones Académicas
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Benchmarking
Límite:
Adolescent
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol
Asunto de la revista:
PEDIATRIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Año:
2022
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Article