Proven strategies to enhance student performance and well-being
Proven strategies to enhance student performance and well-being
Welcome to Cambridge Academic Performance
We offer an occupational therapy approach to academic performance. Our goal is to share this evidence-based approach with the widest possible audience through face to face sessions with students and online training for students, parents, staff and schools.
Issues we provide help with include:
- Stress and anxiety
- Exam stress
- Low mood and depression
- Poor sleep
- Low confidence
- Low motivation
- Overwhelm
- Procrastination
- Perfectionism
- Time management
- Revision and exam technique
- Improved focus and productivity
Cambridge Academic Performance fills an obvious gap that is not purely about revision
technique and is not counselling for emotional problems, but falls into the middle area of academic stress and worry that many students have to deal with.
Parents of a GCSE student
Our Approach
Many students need a type of support that bridges both study and personal development. Cambridge Academic Performance was set up in 2013 to respond to this need.
Our focus is on improving academic performance using practical techniques that change beliefs and behaviour. Within sports, clinical and business settings this type of support is considered essential. It is the acknowledged approach to personal development and high performance under stressful conditions. The academic experience mirrors these high performance environments.
It is all too easy for students to feel overwhelmed by their workload and intimidated by the achievements of others and to lose sight of their own personal resources and abilities. We help student to identify their personal strengths, believe in them and build on them.
We problem solve and find solutions using improved academic strategies. We also explore and replace unhelpful and inaccurate beliefs with newer, evidence-based, accurate and highly motivating beliefs.
These are skills that will help students throughout their lives especially as they go forward into higher education and into their careers.
The approach taken by Cambridge Academic Performance has the effect of circumventing the stigma of language and enables students to tie the support they receive to the ultimate purpose of their time in our college – academic work.
Julian Davies, Principal,
Abbey College Cambridge 2015
Latest News
Students face a multitude of challenges, from stress and anxiety […]
Cambridge Academic Performance offers a comprehensive approach to enhancing student […]
Today’s students face a myriad of pressures, from exam stress […]