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The Online Program against Test Anxiety was developed by the Chair of Behavioural Psychotherapy and funded within the framework of the initiative budget "Diversität gezielt gefördert" (“Diversity specifically promoted”) of the staff unit Diversity Management of the TU Dresden. All contents of this offer, especially texts, pictures and videos, are protected by copyright (please note §§ 106 ff UrhG, § 97 UrhG). Please ask us if you would like to use the contents of this website (contact). The copyright information is listed below:

Table of contents

    1. Project
    2. Training
    3. Texts
    4. Videos
    5. Pictures
    6. Technical service provider
    7. Thanks
    8. Picture credits
      1. Website
      2. Self-test and module graphics
      3. Training platform
      4. Info module
      5. Module direct your attention
      6. Module question your thoughts
      7. Module reduce your safety behaviors
      8. Module Preparation for exams and presentations
      9. Module Services and bibliography

Project

Online-Program against test and speech anxiety
tu-dresden.de/opta
© 2018
© English version 2020

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hoyer
Project management: Johannes Sperling

Funding within the initiative budget "Diversität gezielt gefördert" (“Diversity specifically promoted”) of the staff unit Diversity Management of the TU Dresden

Training

Concept: Dr. Tabea Schweden, Johannes Sperling, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hoyer
Editors: Johannes Sperling, Dr. Tabea Schweden, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hoyer
Implementation & Programming: Johannes Sperling

Texts

(Main authors:)

Self-test: adapted from Bühnenangstfragebogen, see Fehm & Schmidt, 2006
Info module: Dr. Tabea Schweden and Johannes Sperling
Direct your attention: Dr. Tabea Schweden
Question your thoughts: Dr. Tabea Schweden and Johannes Sperling
Reduce your safety behaviors: Dr. Tabea Schweden
Preparation for exams and presentations: Johannes Sperling
Services and bibliography: Johannes Sperling

Videos

Video editorial office: Johannes Sperling, Dr. Tabea Schweden
Production management: Johannes Sperling
Video production: Kim Oliver Gottschalk
The cases presented are fictitious - no real affected persons were shown. The scripts are based on therapeutic experience and are authentic.

Pictures

Image selection and image editing: Johannes Sperling
Picture agencies: Bildpool TU Dresden, Panthermedia
Public domain images: Pixabay  (Creative Commons CC0)
Detailed picture credits at: tu-dresden.de/opta/credits#section-8

Technical service provider

The training platform is subject to its own copyright protection and is provided by Minddistrict GmbH.

Thanks

We would like to thank our experts, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hoyer (module question your thoughts); Dr. Tabea Schweden (module direct your attention); Ingmar Heinig (module reduce your safety behaviors); Michael Rockstroh and Dr. Antje Beckmann from the Central Student Advisory Office as well as Dr. Katharina Ulbrich from the Graduate Academy (module preparation for exams and presentations) and Dr. Stephen Crawcour (interview topic stuttering and special challenges), who contributed interviews and material. Many thanks to Dr. Timo Nolle from the University of Kassel for the kind permission to adapt and use his handouts for the module Preparation for Exams and Presentations.

We also thank all the members of the TU Dresden staff who support us; the Chair of Behavioral Psychotherapy, especially Paul Stumpf, Tobias Schott, Benita Titze, Elena Rumin; the IAP-TU Dresden GmbH Institute Outpatient Clinic and Day Clinic for Psychotherapy as well as the Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. In particular, thanks for the cooperation to the Chair of Clinical Psychology and E-mental Health of the TU Dresden, the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction, the Central Student Advisory Office, the Psycho-social Counseling Center of the Studentenwerk, the University Health Management of the TU Dresden and to the Diversity Management Staff Unit for their support.

Also many thanks to everyone inside and outside the TU Dresden who supported us with ideas and feedback. And special thanks to all the actors and actresses of the videos and photos!

Picture credits

Website

  • OPTA overview of modules: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Self-test: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Info module of the homepage of the training platform: Minddistrict / OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Tabea Schweden / PantherMedia.net / Ishay Botbol / luckybusiness / pressmaster / razihusin
  • Direct your attention: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Paul Stumpf / Tabea Schweden
  • Question your thoughts: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / PantherMedia.net / Wavebreakmedia ltd
  • Reduce your safety behaviors: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Preparation for exams and presentations: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / TU Dresden / Amac Garbe
  • Services and bibliography: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / TU Dresden

Self-test and module graphics

  • OPTA on cell phone: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Minddistrict / TU Dresden / Amac Garbe / Tabea Schweden / PantherMedia.net / Antonio Guillen Fernández / luckybusiness / razihusin
  • OPTA overview of modules: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Self-test: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Info module: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Tabea Schweden / PantherMedia.net / Ishay Botbol / luckybusiness / pressmaster / razihusin
  • Direct your attention: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Paul Stumpf / Tabea Schweden
  • Question your thoughts: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / PantherMedia.net / Wavebreakmedia ltd
  • Reduce your safety behaviors: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Preparation for exams and presentations: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / TU Dresden / Amac Garbe
  • Services and bibliography: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / TU Dresden
  • Fill out the questionnaire: Pixabay (Creative Commons CC0)
  • Evaluation scale display: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Info module on the homepage of the training platform: Minddistrict / OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Tabea Schweden / PantherMedia.net / Ishay Botbol / luckybusiness / pressmaster / razihusin
  • Create an account now: OPTA / Johannes Sperling

Training platform

  • Screenshots of the platform: Minddistrict / OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Platform-spezific pictures: Minddistrict

Info module

  • Module graphics, screenshots: see above
  • Video scenes: see video production and thanks to the actors and actresses
  • Saber-toothed tiger: OPTA / Benita Titze
  • Four levels of fear: Tabea Schweden
  • Dark park: Pixabay (Creative Commons CC0)
  • Power of thoughts: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Paul Stumpf / TU Dresden / Amac Garbe / Pixabay
  • Attention: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Paul Stumpf / Tabea Schweden
  • Vicious circle: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / PantherMedia.net / Wavebreakmedia ltd
  • Safety behavior: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Mr. Ramesh: see Youtube-Link
  • Study group: TU Dresden / Amac Garbe
  • Picture fear – achievement: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Paul Stumpf

Module direct your attention

  • Module graphics, screenshots: see above
  • Video scenes: see video production and thanks to the actors and actresses
  • Attention: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Paul Stumpf / Tabea Schweden
  • Audio exercise man on the couch: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Elena Rumin / PantherMedia.net  / Andriy Popov
  • Lecture: PantherMedia.net / matej kastelic
  • Calender: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Pixabay

Module question your thoughts

  • Module graphics, screenshots: see above
  • Video scenes: see video production and thanks to the actors and actresses
  • Power of thoughts: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Paul Stumpf / TU Dresden / Amac Garbe / Pixabay
  • Stop-Signs: Pixabay (Creative Commons CC0)

Module reduce your safety behaviors

  • Module graphics, screenshots: see above
  • Video scenes: see video production and thanks to the actors and actresses
  • Hiding lecturer: PherMedia.net / stockyimages
  • Protective shield: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Pixabay
  • Flash cards: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / Pixabay
  • Practice makes perfect: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / TU Dresden / Amac Garbe
  • Exam: PantherMedia.net / luckybusiness
  • Presentation: PantherMedia.net / matej kastelic
  • Students with many books: PantherMedia.net / Arturs Budkevics

Module Preparation for exams and presentations

  • Module graphics, screenshots: see above
  • Video scenes: see video production and thanks to the actors and actresses
  • Studying with books: PantherMedia.net / photographee.eu
  • Desperate students: PantherMedia.net / Wavebreakmedia ltd
  • Study plans: OPTA / TU Dresden
  • Procrastination: adapted from "Student syndrom" by Wolfgang Kowarschick / Lawrence P. Leach / Wikimedia (Creative Commons CC 4.0)
  • Pareto principle: Panthermedia.net / PixelsAway
  • Dopamine pathways: Johannes Sperling / "Dopamine pathways" from the National Institutes of Health (Public Domain)
  • Cards on the pinboard: PantherMedia.net / Lev Dolgachov
  • Linear Learning: Johannes Sperling / Elena Rumin
  • Mindmap: Pixabay (Creative Commons CC0)
  • Cards on the floor: Elena Rumin
  • Talking students: see video production and thanks to the actors and actresses
  • Imagination of the mind map with closed eyes: Johannes Sperling /  PantherMedia.net / Andriy Popov / Pixabay
  • Exam: PantherMedia.net / luckybusiness
  • 7 Tips: OPTA / Johannes Sperling
  • Study group: TU Dresden / Amac Garbe
  • Presentation 1: PantherMedia.net / matej kastelic; Presentation 2: TU Dresden / Amac Garbe
  • Oral exam 1: OPTA / TU Dresden / Tabea Schweden; oral exam 2: see video production
  • Mr. Ramesh: see Youtube-Link
  • Optimistic student: OPTA / Johannes Sperling / TU Dresden / Amac Garbe

Module Services and bibliography

  • Module graphics, screenshots: see above
  • Video scenes: see video production and thanks to the actors and actresses

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Last modified: Nov 10, 2020