“…While Delemarter and Ewart (2020) offer: “perhaps one of the greatest services we can provide our student teachers is a framework to help them process their fears, such as modeling how to reflect on one's emotional state” (p. 5); this study adds the use of the newly conceptualized CT-TEP model to a more extensive discussion on methods to understand, evaluate, and mitigate the crises our preservice students face as well as the vitality of teacher education programs' futures. Furthering that claim, I argue more research is needed, not just on student teachers, or preservice teachers already in field components of their program, but on introductory, foundational, pre-field students.…”