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Success Story: KC

From my inbox–KC, recent CA exam passer. Thanks and congratulations!

Thanks for your website–really helpful for me in passing the California Written Clinical. Here’s what worked for me (and what didn’t).

I am a pretty anxious person in general, so even under the best circumstances I can get sidetracked by worries that I [...]

Social Work Exam Procrastination

Difficulty getting down to it and studying? You’re in the good company of just about everyone attempting to prepare for the exam. People get overwhelmed by it all and…just do something else. Here, from sister site Therapy Worksheets, a few worksheets/infosheets about procrastination. Go ahead and put off studying for a little while longer [...]

Acceptance and Test Anxiety

One route through test (or other) anxiety: accepting it. Worry is just part of the package. For acceptance assistance, check out the guided meditations and other ACT-based mindfulness materials at Live Mindfully. Just tried this this twelve-minute anxiety meditation and liked it (link goes to mp3). Enjoy…or don’t. Either way’s fine.

Mindfulness v. Test Anxiety

Just studying can be anxiety making. ’Cause you don’t know the stuff yet. ’Cause the vignettes are all so grim. Just because.

Test day? The same, but more. I’ve read accounts of people not sleeping, not eating, not breathing through the the last prep day and test day.

So here, some quick mindfulness meditations, [...]

Remain Calm

One thing repeated in all the prep materials I’ve come across so far is a piece of pat advice: Don’t get too stressed out. “Anxiety” neared #1 in the Top Ten Reasons People Don’t Pass The Test list at a recent AATBS workshop. One of that company’s CDs has a guided imagery–picture your resistance [...]