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This article was written as a conceptual paper to present a new combinational therapeutic approach on the base of cognitive restructuring and critical thinking intervention due to assisting students to combat proficiently with test anxiety. Regarding to cognitive approach, anxious students suffer from test anxiety because they engage with some irrational thoughts and difficulties in concentration on task-relevant thought. Thus, if students are trained to manage their irrational thoughts and substitute with rational thoughts, they will experience a low level of test anxiety during their study journey. Although there are various treatments and interventions in the cognitive approach, cognitive restructuring and critical thinking skills were considered in this article for some reasons. Cognitive restructuring is one of the techniques in cognitive approach therapy as a learning process to convert cognitive misrepresentations, or fundamental of faulty thinking with the goal of replacing irrational thoughts and beliefs with beneficial rational thoughts. Moreover, critical thinking can classify as a reasonable and reflective thinking process which is directed to make a decision about our beliefs or actions, and also about a certain situation or problem. The present intervention involves the combination of two related cognitive restructuring sub-models (rational emotive behavior therapy and systematic rational restructuring) and critical thinking skills. Through this intervention as a cognitive process, students could evaluate their cognitions, emotions and behaviors are true.
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