
Defining Anxiety Disorders
Edna B. Foa, Martin Franklin, Carmen McLean, Richard J. McNally, Daniel Pine, E. Jane Costello, Martin Franklin, Jerome Kagan, Philip Kendall, Rachel Klein, Henrietta Leonard, Michael Liebowitz, John March, Richard McNally, Thomas Ollendick, Daniel Pine, Robert Pynoos, Wendy Silverman, and Linda Spear
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
This chapter begins by stating the importance of considering the concept of anxiety and its heterogeneity. It defines anxiety to set the scene for the rest of the discussion in this ...
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Why Parents Accommodate
Eli R. Lebowitz
in Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children
This chapter reviews common reasons and motives that maintain the high levels of family accommodation commonly reported by parents of anxious children. Among these reasons are to reduce ...
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Introduction: From Nomothetic to Idiographic Approaches
Edward C. Chang and Cathryn G. Fabian
in Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chapter 1 describes the contexts of the remainder of this title. It considers the history and use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of Mental Disorders (DSM), fundamental ...
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Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
This chapter discusses the use of IPT for patients with social anxiety disorder (social phobia) and panic disorder. Anxiety and depression frequently overlap, and the focal IPT problem ...
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Comorbidity Among Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Nicole Neil, Laura Moum, and Peter Sturmey
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
Comorbid conditions are common in children and youth with autism spectrum disorders. This chapter reviews the evidence on assessment, treatment and symptom overlap for Attention ...
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Anxiety Disorders in Asians
Janie J. Hong
in Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chapter 7 discusses anxiety disorders in Asians. It considers the identification of anxiety disorders (DSM nosology and criteria for anxiety disorders, specific phobias, panic attacks, ...
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Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Edward C. Chang (ed.)
The Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians represents a historically remarkable global collaboration among leading experts of psychopathology in Asian adults. Chapters provide critical ...
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Co-occurring Disorders over Time
Mary C. Zanarini
in In the Fullness of Time: Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
This chapter concerns the co-occurring Axis I and II disorders reported by borderline patients. It was found at baseline that mood, PTSD, other anxiety, substance use, and eating disorders, ...
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Child Anxiety: Types and Treatments
Eli R. Lebowitz
in Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents
This chapter discusses the main types of childhood and adolescent anxiety. There is no limit to the variety of things that can cause a child anxiety, but some fears and worries are more ...
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Child with Separation Anxiety Disorder
Eli R. Lebowitz
in Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children
This chapter illustrates the work of reducing family accommodation as part of a larger treatment strategy that also includes working directly with the anxious child. The chapter presents ...
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Teenager with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Eli R. Lebowitz
in Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children
This chapter illustrates the work of reducing family accommodation as part of a larger treatment strategy that also includes working directly with the anxious child. The chapter presents ...
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Teenager with Social Phobia
Eli R. Lebowitz
in Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children
This chapter illustrates the work of reducing family accommodation as a stand-alone and independent treatment, without concurrent child-based treatment. The chapter presents the case of ...
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Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children
Eli R. Lebowitz
This book is a practical guide to addressing family accommodation in the treatment of childhood anxiety. Accommodation refers to changes that parents make to their own behavior to help a ...
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Introduction to Accommodation of Child Anxiety
Eli R. Lebowitz
in Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children
This chapter introduces the concept of family accommodation and discusses its relation to other aspects of parenting behavior. The chapter provides definitions of family accommodation and ...
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Anxiety Symptoms
David Watson and Michael W. O’Hara
in Understanding the Emotional Disorders: A Symptom-Level Approach Based on the IDAS-II
This chapter reviews the convergent, discriminant, criterion, and incremental validity of symptoms of the DSM-5 anxiety disorders; these include panic disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety ...
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Separation Anxiety Disorder
Amy R. Perwien and Gail A. Bernstein
in Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinican's Guide to Effective Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions
This chapter discusses separation anxiety disorder (SAD) in children and adolescents, including prevalence and course, assessment methods and rating scales, and treatment (psychosocial ...
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Philip C. Kendall, Sandra Pimentel, Moira A. Rynn, Aleta Angelosante, and Alicia Webb
in Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinican's Guide to Effective Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions
This chapter describes generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) in children and discusses useful assessment tools and therapies (both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy) for the identification and ...
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Social Anxiety Disorder
Anne Marie Albano and Chris Hayward
in Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinican's Guide to Effective Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions
This chapter describes a framework for understanding social anxiety disorder (otherwise called social phobia) that is developmental, multi-factorial, and transactional. Implied in this ...
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Contributions of Behavioral Genetics Research: Quantifying Genetic, Shared Environmental and Nonshared Environmental Influences
Thalia C. Eley
in The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety
This chapter discusses behavioral genetics research into the etiology of anxiety. It outlines top-down and bottom-up family study designs, as well as twin, sibling, and adoption studies. ...
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Anxiety Disorders
Brian L. Odlaug, Waqar Mahmud, Andrew Goddard, and Jon E. Grant
in Young Adult Mental Health
This chapter discusses aspects and impacts of anxiety disorders, including social anxietydisorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety,and posttraumatic stress disorder on youngadult mental ...
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