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3.4.12 Helping Anxious Students Build Confidence and Achievement
In combination, giftedness and successful achievement can cause children to feel intense competitive pressure to always succeed, a state known as perfectionism. Their sensitivity and intensity can permit students to experience great intellectual and emotional depths, but they can also result in anxiety that may cause them to avoid challenges. When highly sensitive adults respond intuitively to oversensitive children, they may unintentionally reinforce and increase children’s anxiety. Tears and sadness may accidentally empower students to avoid the challenges that schools provide, increase their anxiety, and prevent high achievement. This session will give participants practical tools for diminishing anxieties and encouraging student positivity, confidence, and achievement.