This study is an evaluation of the Brief Coping Cat anxiety reduction psychoeducational curriculum within a gifted elementary school population. The goal of the Brief Coping Cat intervention is to decrease students' self-reported feelings of anxiety by teaching them a variety of strategies designed to help them recognize, understand, and manage emotions and physical reactions to anxiety. The primary evaluation question of this program evaluation focuses on students' perception of their experience in the intervention, as measured by mixed methods. Pre-treatment and post-treatment data show decreased anxiety and global psychological distress as evidenced by the decrease of mean scores. Students also reported satisfaction and favorable impressions of their experiences. Implications for the use of this intervention with gifted populations are discussed. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]