The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based psychoeducation program on test anxiety of high school senior students and compare the effectiveness of traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Study was conducted in a weak experimental design. Short Symptom Inventory, Test Anxiety Inventory, Avoidance and Fusion Scale Youth-8 and Automatic Thoughts Scale were used as data collection tools. Participants meeting the inclusion criteria were assigned to three groups as ACT (11 student), CBT (11 student) and control (11 student) group. ACT group received seven session and CBT group received eight session psychoeducation intervention for seven-week; control group received no intervention. The results of the study showed that; the mean scores of the subjects in the ACT, CBT and control groups obtained from the TAI pre-test and post-test measurements differ significantly [F(2-30) = 9.123; p
Key words: acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, anxiety, test anxiety scale, psychotherapy
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