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School Functioning in Youth with and without Anxiety Disorders: Comparisons by Diagnosis and Comorbidity
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Mychailyszyn, Matthew P.; Mendez, Julia L.; Kendall, Philip C. – School Psychology Review, 2010
This article reports on school functioning for 227 youth ages 7-14 (M = 10.3) with principal diagnoses of separation anxiety disorder (n = 40), social phobia (n = 58), generalized anxiety disorder (n = 76), or no diagnoses (n = 53). School functioning data were gathered via parent and teacher report. Youth with no diagnoses demonstrated…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Separation Anxiety, Fear, Antisocial Behavior
Anxiety, Mood, and Substance Use Disorders in Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders
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Hughes, Alicia A.; Furr, Jami M.; Sood, Erica D.; Barmish, Andrea J.; Kendall, Philip C. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
Examined the prevalence of anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders in the parents of anxiety disordered (AD) children relative to children with no psychological disorder (NPD). The specificity of relationships between child and parent anxiety disorders was also investigated. Results revealed higher prevalence rates of anxiety disorders in…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Incidence, Parents, Separation Anxiety
Changes in Emotion Regulation Following Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxious Youth
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Suveg, Cynthia; Sood, Erica; Comer, Jonathan S.; Kendall, Philip C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study examined emotion-related functioning following cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with 37 youth with anxiety disorders (22 boys, 15 girls) ranging in age from 7 to 15 with a principal diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (n = 27), separation anxiety disorder (n = 12), and/or social phobia (n = 13). Treated youth exhibited a…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Self Efficacy, Therapy, Separation Anxiety
What Makes Children Fearful and Anxious
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Honig, Alice Sterling; Miller, Susan A.; Church, Ellen Booth – Early Childhood Today (J3), 2007
This article explains the causes of children's fears and anxieties in the following age brackets: (1) 0-2 years old; (2) 3-4 years old; and (3) 5-6 years old. It presents situations wherein children develop fears and anxious feelings. It also discusses how to deal and manage these fears and anxieties and enumerates what can be done to make…
Descriptors: Fear, Children, Anxiety, Etiology
Psychiatric Comorbidity among Children with Gender Identity Disorder
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Wallien, Madeleine S.C.; Swaab, Hanna; Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: To investigate the prevalence and type of comorbidity in children with gender identity disorder (GID). Method: The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children--Parent Version was used to assess psychopathology according to the DSM in two groups of children. The first group consisted of 120 Dutch children (age range 4-11 years) who were…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Hyperactivity, Psychopathology, Sexual Identity
Subclassification of School Phobic Disturbances.
Atkinson, Leslie; And Others – 1987
The confusion surrounding all aspects of school refusal may rest partly on the misguided assumption that the disturbance represents a single syndrome. Five consistently emerging variables which may help distinguish among school phobic types were abstracted from the literature: extensiveness of disturbance, mode of onset, age, fear source, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Depression (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education