Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental health problems in childhood. In this timely book, an international team of psychiatrists and psychologists review the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field and indicate how these may inform research and clinical practice. Following a historical introduction, chapters review conceptual and management issues, including cognitive, neurobiological, learning and developmental processes, and the influence of the peer group and family. Phenomenology, classification and assessment are covered, as are clinical course, intervention and outcome, with attention to both pharmacological and psychosocial treatment approaches. For clinicians and researchers this is an authoritative guide to the understanding and assessment of anxiety disorders in the young, and will appeal to all mental health professionals involved with this age group.
- Scholarly and up-to-the-minute
- Comprehensive coverage of the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field
- Written by a truly international team of experts
Reviews & endorsements
"The book is a useful update in a relatively uncrowded research area of childhood psychopathology." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
"There is much of value in this book, which should certainly be in the libraries of centres in which children or adolescents with anxiety diorders are treated or assessed." Canadian Child Pyschiatry Review
"This is a nice introduction to anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. It is a very worthwhile contribution to this field and it is highly recommended." Doody Publishing, Inc.
Product details
January 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511837050
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12 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface Wendy K. Silverman and Philip D. A. Treffers
- 1. Anxiety and its disorders in children and adolescents before the twentieth century Philip D. A. Treffers and Wendy K. Silverman
- 2. Affective and cognitive processes and the development and maintenance of anxiety and its disorders Pier J. M. Prins
- 3. Behavioural inhibition and the development of childhood anxiety disorders Jaap Oosterlaan
- 4. Psychosocial developmental theory in relation to anxiety and its disorders P. Michael Westenberg, Berend M. Siebelink and Philip D. A. Treffers
- 5. Neuropsychiatry of paediatric anxiety disorders Floyd R. Salee and John S. March
- 6. Clinical phenomenology, classification and assessment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents Antonio C. Fonseca and Sean Perrin
- 7. Friends or foes? Peer influences on anxiety among children and adolescents Annette M. La Greca
- 8. Conditioning models of childhood anxiety Andy P. Field and Graham C. L. Davey
- 9. Traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder William Yule, Sean Perrin and Patrick Smith
- 10. Family and genetic influences: is anxiety 'all in the family'? Frits Boer and Ingeborg Lindhout
- 11. Child-parent relations: attachment and anxiety disorders Katharina Manassis
- 12. Community and epidemiological aspects of anxiety disorders in children Frank C. Verhulst
- 13. Onset, course, and outcome for anxiety disorders in children Lars-Göran Öst
- 14. Psychosocial interventions for anxiety disorders Wendy K. Silverman and Steven L. Berman
- 15. Pharmacological treatment of paediatric anxiety Sandra L. Stock, John S. Werry and Jon McClellan
- 16. Prevention of anxiety disorders: the case of post-traumatic stress disorder Avigdor Klingman
- Index.