Information Processing Biases and Anxiety A Developmental Perspective

by Hadwin, Julie A.; Field, Andy P.

• ISBN13: 9780470998199
• ISBN10: 0470998199
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

With contributions from a global team of experts this book provides a comprehensive overview of information processing biases in children and adolescents. The first book to provide readers with an understanding of anxiety and the role of information processing biases more broadly in the context of developmental psychopathology Demonstrates how researchers have explored diverse aspects of information processing in anxious children and adolescents Draws on the microparadigms used in the study of development and psychopathology to consider issues related to heritability, temperament, learning and parenting Considers preventative methods and treatment protocols

Author Biography

Julie A. Hadwin is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Southampton. She has used cognitive models to study emotional disorders in childhood and has written several seminal papers to understand attention to threat in childhood anxiety. Her publications include Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read (with Patricia Howlin and Simon Baron-Cohen, Wiley, 1999; 2010).
Andy P. Field is a Reader in Experimental Psychopathology at the University of Sussex. He has published over 50 research papers, mostly on child anxiety and human conditioning, and has written/edited more than 10 books including the award-winning textbook Discovering Statistics using SPSS (3rd Edition, 2009). He has received teaching awards from the University of Sussex and the British Psychological Society.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
An Introduction to the Study of Information Processing Biases in Childhood Anxiety: Theoretical and Methodological Issues	p. 1
Theoretical and Research Issues	p. 19
Anxiety-Related Reasoning Biases in Children and Adolescents	p. 21
The Emotional Stroop Task in Anxious Children	p. 47
Selective Attention to Threat in Childhood Anxiety: Evidence from Visual Probe Paradigms	p. 77
The Use of Visual Search Paradigms to Understand Attentional Biases in Childhood Anxiety	p. 109
Using Eye Tracking Methodology in Children with Anxiety Disorders	p. 129
The Assessment of Fear-Related Automatic Associations in Children and Adolescents	p. 151
Application of Cognitive Neuroscience Techniques to the Study of Anxiety-Related Processing Biases in Children	p. 183
The Origin and Treatment of Information Processing Biases in Child Anxiety	p. 207
Genetics	p. 209
Temperamental Factors Associated with the Acquisition of Information Processing Biases and Anxiety	p. 233
Learning of Information Processing Biases in Anxious Children and Adolescents	p. 253
Intergenerational Transmission of Anxious Information Processing Biases	p. 279
Attentional Biases in Children: Implications for Treatment	p. 297
Index	p. 321
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