This paper describes an ongoing treatment program based on a cognitive-attentional interpretation of text anxiety. The primary goal is to train students to eliminate self-relevant thinking, and increase task-relevant thinking, i.e., to turn their attention from the self to the demands of the external situation. Three studies are described. The…

Results illustrate the usefulness of a conceptual model for assessing the interrelationships among pretreatment, and posttreatment variables and outcome. This approach facilitates the unraveling of these complex interrelationships by allowing for examination of the cumulative influences of prior variables on subsequent variables. (Author/BEF)

Based upon the assumption that a human system passes through several phases as it adapts to a crisis situation, the article describes a four stage model, each phase presented as it applies to the individual in crisis and then extended to incorporate organizational parameters. Comments follow by Leonard Soloman and Norman Paris. (Author/BY)