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Anxietydisordersinchildrenandadolescents Anxietydisordersareamongthemostprevalentmentalhealthproblemsinchildhood.Inthis timelybook, an internationalteam of psychiatrists and psychologists review the most recent theoreticalandempiricaldevelopmentsinthefieldandindicatehowthesemayinformresearch andclinicalpractice. Following a historical introduction, chapters review conceptual and management issues, includingcognitive,neurobiological,learninganddevelopmentalprocesses,andtheinfluenceof thepeergroup andfamily.Phenomenology,classificationand assessmentarecovered, asare clinicalcourse,interventionandoutcome,withattentiontobothpharmacologicalandpsycho- socialtreatmentapproaches. Forcliniciansandresearchersthisisanauthoritativeguidetotheunderstandingandassess- ment of anxiety disorders in the young, and will appeal to all mental health professionals involvedwiththisagegroup. WendyK.SilvermanisProfessorofPsychologyandDirectoroftheChildandFamilyPsycho- socialResearchCenteratFloridaInternationalUniversity,Miami. PhilipD.A.TreffersisDirectoroftheAcademicCentreforChildandAdolescentPsychiatry CuriumandProfessorofChildandAdolescentPsychiatryatLeidenUniversity. CambridgeChildandAdolescentPsychiatry Childandadolescentpsychiatryisanimportantandgrowingareaofclinicalpsychiatry.Thelastdecade hasseenarapidexpansionofscientificknowledgeinthisfieldandhasprovidedanewunderstandingof theunderlyingpathologyofmentaldisordersintheseagegroups.Thisseriesisaimedatpractitioners and researchers both in child and adolescent mental health services and developmental and clinical neuroscience.Focusingonpsychopathology,ithighlightsthosetopicswherethegrowthofknowledge has had the greatest impact on clinical practiceand on the treatment and understandingof mental illness. Individual volumes benefit both from the international expertise of their contributors and a coherencegeneratedthroughauniformstyleandstructurefortheseries.Eachvolumeprovidesfirstly anhistoricaloverviewandacleardescriptiveaccountofthepsychopathologyofaspecificdisorderor group of related disorders. These featuresthen form the basis for a thoroughcritical review of the etiology,naturalhistory,management,preventionandimpactonlateradultadjustment.Whilsteach volumeisthereforecompleteinitsownright,volumesalsorelatetoeachothertocreateaflexibleand collectableseriesthatshouldappealtostudentsaswellasexperiencedscientistsandpractitioners. Editorialboard Serieseditor ProfessorIanM.Goodyer UniversityofCambridge Associateeditors ProfessorDonaldJ.Cohen DrRobertN.Goodman YaleChildStudyCenter InstituteofPsychiatry,London ProfessorBarryNurcombe ProfessorDrHelmutRemschmidt TheUniversityofQueensland KlinikumderPhilipps-Universita¨t,Germany ProfessorDrHermanvanEngeland DrFredR.Volkmar AcademischZiekenhuisUtrecht YaleChildStudyCenter Alreadypublishedinthisseries: TheDepressedChildandAdolescent,SecondeditioneditedbyIanM.Goodyer0521794269pb SchizophreniainChildrenandAdolescentseditedbyHelmutRemschmidtpb Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence edited by Jonathan Hill and Barbara Maughan 0521786398pb AutismandPervasiveDevelopmentalDisorderseditedbyFredR.Volkmar0521553865hb CognitiveBehaviourTherapyforChildrenandFamiliesbyPhilipGraham0521572525hb 0521576261pb HyperactivityDisordersofChildhoodeditedbySeijaSandberg0521432502hb Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents Research, assessment and intervention Editedby Wendy K. Silverman and Philip D. A. Treffers CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521789660 © Cambridge University Press 2001 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2001 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Anxiety disorders in children: research, assessment, and intervention/edited by Wendy K. Silverman and Philip D. A. Treffers. p. cm. – (Cambridge child and adolescent psychiatry) Includes index. ISBN 0 521 78966 4 (pbk.) 1. Anxiety in children. 2. Anxiety in adolescence. 3. Child psychotherapy. 4. Adolescent psychotherapy. I. Silverman, Wendy K. II. Treffers, Ph. D. A. III. Cambridge child and adolescent psychiatry series RJ506.A58 A585 2000 618.92´85223 – dc21 00-033696 ISBN-13 978-0-521-78966-0 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-78966-4 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2005 Every effort has been made in preparing this book to provide accurate and up-to-date information which is in accord with accepted standards and practice at the time of publication. Nevertheless, the authors, editors and publisher can make no warranties that the information contained herein is totally free from error, not least because clinical standards are constantly changing through research and regulation. The authors, editors and publisher therefore disclaim all liability for direct or consequential damages resulting from the use of material contained in this book. Readers are strongly advised to pay careful attention to information provided by the manufacturer of any drugs or equipment that they plan to use. ToEffie, WKS MMMM Contents Listofcontributors ix Preface xiii WendyK.SilvermanandPhilipD.A.Treffers 1 Anxietyanditsdisordersinchildrenandadolescentsbeforethe twentiethcentury 1 PhilipD.A.TreffersandWendyK.Silverman 2 Affectiveandcognitiveprocessesandthedevelopmentand maintenanceofanxietyanditsdisorders 23 PierJ.M.Prins 3 Behaviouralinhibitionandthedevelopmentofchildhoodanxiety disorders 45 JaapOosterlaan 4 Psychosocialdevelopmentaltheoryinrelationtoanxietyandits disorders 72 P.MichielWestenberg,BerendM.SiebelinkandPhilipD.A.Treffers 5 Neuropsychiatryofpaediatricanxietydisorders 90 FloydR.SalleeandJohnS.March 6 Clinicalphenomenology,classificationandassessmentofanxiety disordersinchildrenandadolescents 126 AntonioC.FonsecaandSeanPerrin 7 Friendsorfoes?Peerinfluencesonanxietyamongchildrenand adolescents 159 AnnetteM.LaGreca vii viii Contents 8 Conditioningmodelsofchildhoodanxiety 187 AndyP.FieldandGrahamC.L.Davey 9 Traumaticeventsandpost-traumaticstressdisorder 212 WilliamYule,SeanPerrinandPatrickSmith 10 Familyandgeneticinfluences:isanxiety‘allinthefamily’? 235 FritsBoerandIngeborgLindhout 11 Child–parentrelations:attachmentandanxietydisorders 255 KatharinaManassis 12 Communityandepidemiologicalaspectsofanxietydisordersinchildren 273 FrankC.Verhulst 13 Onset,course,andoutcomeforanxietydisordersinchildren 293 Lars-Go¨ranO¨standPhilipD.A.Treffers 14 Psychosocialinterventionsforanxietydisordersinchildren:statusand futuredirections 313 WendyK.SilvermanandStevenL.Berman 15 Pharmacologicaltreatmentofpaediatricanxiety 335 SaundraL.Stock,JohnS.WerryandJonM.McClellan 16 Preventionofanxietydisorders:thecaseofpost-traumaticstress disorder 368 AvigdorKlingman Index 393 Contributors FritsBoer AvigdorKlingman LeidenUniversityMedicalCentre UniversityofHaifa AcademicCentreforChildandAdolescent FacultyofEducation PsychiatryCurium MountCarmel Endegeesterstraatweg27 Haifa31905,Israel 2342AKOegstgeest TheNetherlands AnnetteM.LaGreca DepartmentofPsychology StevenL.Berman UniversityofMiami ChildandFamilyPsychosocial POBox249229 ResearchCenter CoralGables,FL33124,U.S.A. DepartmentofPsychology FloridaInternationalUniversity IngeborgLindhout UniversityPark LeidenUniversityMedicalCentre Miami,FL33199,U.S.A. AcademicCentreforChildandAdolescent PsychiatryCurium GrahamC.L.Davey Endegeesterstraatweg27 PsychologyGroup 2342AKOegstgeest SchoolofCognitiveandComputingScience TheNetherlands UniversityofSussex BrightonBN19QH,U.K. KatharinaManassis DepartmentofPsychiatry AndyP.Field HospitalforSickChildren PsychologyGroup Toronto,OntarioM5G1X8 SchoolofCognitiveandComputingScience Canada UniversityofSussex BrightonBN19QH,U.K. JohnS.March DepartmentofPediatricPsychiatry AntonioC.Fonseca DukeUniversityMedicalCenter DepartmentofPsychology POBox3527 UniversityofCoimbra Durham,NC27710,U.S.A. Coimbra,Portugal ix

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