Portrait des symptômes d’anxiété généralisée chez les élèves du secondaire : l’importance de la prévention, du dépistage et de l’intervention

Therriault, Danyka; Houle, Andrée-Anne; Lane, Julie; Smith, Jonathan; Patrick, Graham; Roberge, Pasquale; Dupuis, Audrey

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“…In Québec, in 2017, 17.2% of teens reported having an anxiety disorder diagnosed by a health professional (ISQ, 2018), up from 9% in 2010-2011. Moreover, the percentage of students with high anxiety symptoms increases throughout high school, from 19.2% in grade 7 to 30.2% in grade 11 (ISQ, 2018;Therriault et al, 2022). Numerous factors have been associated with anxiety in adolescents, including individual factors such as low self-esteem, intolerance of uncertainty, cognitive avoidance, and high perfectionism (Gosselin, Langlois, et al, 2007;Maldonado et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2017).…”

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“…The goals of most universal anxiety prevention programs are to prevent anxiety and improve mental health by addressing risk factors related primarily to the personal sphere, including emotion regulation, tolerance of uncertainty, self-esteem, problem-solving, and coping strategies (Bienvenu & Ginsburg, 2007;Houle, 2017). Yet several authors support the assumption that anxiety develops under the influence of a plurality of individual, social, academic, and family factors, all of which interact with each other (Piché et al, 2017;Therriault et al, 2022). The current recommendation, therefore, is to focus more on developing and implementing anxiety prevention programs that address a variety of associated risk factors (Piché et al, 2017).…”

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Effects of the HORS‐PISTE universal anxiety prevention program measured according to initial level of student problems

Therriault

Lane

Houle

et al. 2022

Psychology in the Schools

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Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychopathologies in Western adolescents and have been on the rise in recent years. Not only does anxiety disrupt the daily lives of the young people who suffer from it, it can also have harmful behavioral, psychological, social, and academic effects. Given this, there is a pressing need to implement universal anxiety prevention programs for adolescents in one of their main living environments, the school. This type of program has the twofold advantage of reaching all adolescents before the onset of more significant symptoms and of promoting access to services for young people in difficulty. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the HORS‐PISTE—Exploration Cycle 1 program developed by the RBC Center for Academic Expertise in Mental Health, based on the initial level of problems presented by the students, using a preexperimental pretest–posttest design. A total of 2276 students in grades 7 and 8, with an average age of 12.65 years, from 16 high schools participated in the pretest and posttest evaluations. The results showed that the students who participated in the HORS‐PISTE program reported a significant change in the intended direction for several of the variables examined between T1 and T2. In particular, decreases in anxiety symptoms, fear of being judged by others, perfectionism, internet addiction, intolerance of uncertainty, and anxiety interference, as well as an increase in the sense of self‐efficacy, were observed between T1 and T2 for both boys and girls. The results also showed that students who presented at T1 with more significant anxiety symptoms and proximal risk factors experienced greater improvement than did those with a moderate or low level of initial problems. Overall, the results of this evaluative study of the HORS‐PISTE program are promising, demonstrating positive changes in symptoms and in the main proximal risk factors for anxiety, in particular among students who initially presented with high levels of problems. This study therefore demonstrates the relevance of implementing this type of prevention program in high schools.

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Effects of the HORS‐PISTE universal anxiety prevention program measured according to initial level of student problems

Therriault

Lane

Houle

et al. 2022

Psychology in the Schools

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School and separation anxiety in children: the psychotherapeutic value of art therapy

BERKOUCHE

2024

AUCPP

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The clinical illustration presented here showcases the psychotherapeutic benefits of art therapy for children experiencing separation anxiety. Its containing quality facilitates the reconstruction of internal and external boundaries and fosters a sense of personal integrity. By stimulating creativity, imagination, and the projection of internal fears, art therapy enables children to process and express their emotions effectively, leading to improved emotional regulation and coping mechanisms. Separation anxiety can give rise to social and academic adaptation difficulties, which are often associated with learning challenges and academic failures. Based on this, we concluded through an experiment that introducing art therapy, as a form of mental health care for these children, is highly beneficial for improving their well-being.

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An innovative process for sustaining and scaling up a school-based mental health promotion and anxiety prevention programs: The example of the HORS-PISTE program

Lane,

Ziam,

Therriault

et al. 2023

Santé mentale au Québec

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Portrait des symptômes d’anxiété généralisée chez les élèves du secondaire : l’importance de la prévention, du dépistage et de l’intervention

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References 38 publications

Effects of the HORS‐PISTE universal anxiety prevention program measured according to initial level of student problems

Effects of the HORS‐PISTE universal anxiety prevention program measured according to initial level of student problems

School and separation anxiety in children: the psychotherapeutic value of art therapy

An innovative process for sustaining and scaling up a school-based mental health promotion and anxiety prevention programs: The example of the HORS-PISTE program

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