Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

by Edited by Wendy K. Silverman , Andy P. Field

• ISBN13: 9780521721486
• ISBN10: 0521721482
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental health problems in childhood and adolescence. This fully revised new edition is an authoritative guide to the understanding and assessment of anxiety disorders in the young. The first section covers historical and conceptual issues, including cognitive and developmental processes, clinical and theoretical models, phenomenology and classification, and evidence-based assessment. Subsequent sections cover the biology of child and adolescent anxiety, and environmental influences including traumatic events, parenting and the impact of the peer group. The final section addresses prevention and treatment of anxiety. All chapters incorporate new advances in the field, explicitly differentiate between children and adolescents, and incorporate a developmental perspective. Written and edited by an international team of leading experts in the field, this is a key text for researchers, practitioners, students and clinical trainees with interests in child and adolescent anxiety.

Author Biography

Wendy K. Silverman is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Child Anxiety and Phobia Program, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA. Andy P. Field is Professor of Child Psychopathology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Historical and conceptual issues
Anxiety and its disorders in children and adolescents in historical perspective	p. 3
The clinical phenomenology and classification of child and adolescent anxiety	p. 25
The developmental epidemiology of anxiety disorders: phenomenology, prevalence, and comorbidity	p. 56
The "normal" development of fear	p. 76
Social anxiety disorder: a normal fear gone awry?	p. 90
Information processing biases in child and adolescent anxiety: a developmental perspective	p. 103
Adult models of anxiety and their application to children and adolescents	p. 129
The biology of child and adolescent anxiety
The genetic basis of child and adolescent anxiety	p. 161
The brain and behavior in childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders	p. 179
Temperament and anxiety in children and adolescents	p. 198
Environmental influences on child and adolescent anxiety
The role of learning in the etiology of child and adolescent fear and anxiety	p. 227
Traumatic events	p. 257
Child-parent relations: attachment and anxiety disorders	p. 280
Parenting and child anxiety	p. 299
Peer influences	p. 323
Prevention and treatment of child and adolescent anxiety
Prevention of child and adolescent anxiety disorders	p. 349
Pharmacological management of childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders	p. 367
Treatment: an update and recommendations	p. 392
Index	p. 419
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