Prevention and early intenvention strategies for anxiety disorders

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-174

  Roth, Janet H ^a   Dadds, Mark R ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; HUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 0033061932     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001504-199903000-00005     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. 1 Vasey M, Dadds MR, eds. Developmental psychopathology of anxiety. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1999. This is a book devoted to the examination of childhood anxiety disorders from a developmental perspective by current leaders in the field.
2. 2 LaFreniere PJ, Capuano F. Preventive intervention as means of clarifying direction of effects in socialization: anxious-withdrawn preschoolers case. Dev Psychopathol 1997; 9:551-564. This is the only prevention trial in early childhood specifically targeting anxiety.
3. 3 Strayhorn JM, Weidman CS. Follow-up one year after parent-child interaction training: effects on behavior of preschool children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1991; 28:138-143.
4. 4 Shure MB, Spivack G. Problem-solving techniques in child-rearing. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1978.
5. 5 Dadds MR, Spence SH, Holland DE, Barrett PM, Laurens KR. Prevention and early intervention for anxiety disorders: a controlled trial. J Consult Clin Psychol 1997; 65:627-635. This is a landmark study in preventing onset and development of anxiety problems in children using a large sample size in a randomized controlled trial.
6. 6 Dadds MR, Holland DE, Laurens KR, Mullins M, Barrett PM, Spence SH. Early intervention and prevention of anxiety disorders in children: results at two-year follow-up. J Counsel Clin Psychol 67: 67-71. One of the few randomized controlled trials with a large sample, showing a preventive treatment effect for anxiety disorders.
7. 7 Gest SD. Behavioral inhibition: stability and associations with adaptation from childhood to early adulthood. J Pers Soc Psychol 1997; 72:467-475. Longitudinal evidence is provided that links behavioural inhibition in childhood to adult social and emotional problems.
8. 8 Hirshfeld DR, Biederman J, Brody L, Faraone SV, Rosenbaum JF. Associations between expressed emotion and child behavioral inhibition and psychopathology: a pilot study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1997; 36:205-213. This is one of the few studies that examined behavioural inhibition together with maternal anxiety and expressed emotion in relationship to anxiety disorders in offspring.
9. 9 Hirshfeld DR, Biederman J, Brody L, Faraone SV, Rosenbaum JF. Expressed emotion toward children with behavioral inhibition: associations with maternal anxiety disorder. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1997; 36:910-917. This continuing study suggests a reciprocal interaction between maternal anxiety and child inhibition.
10. 10 Beidel DC, Turner SM. At risk for anxiety: I. Psychopathology in the offspring of anxious parents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1997; 36:918-924.
11. 11 Marans S, Berkowitz SJ, Cohen DJ. Police and mental health professionals-collaborative responses to the impact of violence on children and families. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin North Am 1998; 7:635-641.
12. 12 Warren SL, Huston L, Egeland B, Sroufe LA. Child and adolescent anxiety disorders and early adjustment. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1997; 36:637-644. This is perhaps the most comprehensive study to date demonstrating that anxious resistant attachment in infancy predicts child/adolescent anxiety disorders, beyond maternal anxiety or temperament.
13. 13 Cowen EL, Wyman PA, Work WC, Kim JY, Fagen DB, Magnus KB. Follow-up study of young stress-affected and stress-resilient urban children. Dev Psychopathol 1997; 9:565-577. This study draws from a comprehensive, longitudinal research base, pointing out clear, empirically established directions for building resilience in children and families.
14. 14 Cowen EL, Wyman PA, Work WC. Resilience in highly stressed urban children: concepts and findings. Bull N Y Acad Med 1996; 73:267-284.
15. 15 Werner EE. Risk, resilience, and recovery: perspectives from the Kauai longitudinal study. Dev Psychopathol 1993; 5:503-515.
16. 16 Fox NA, Calkins SD. Social withdrawal: interactions among temperament, attachment, and regulation. In: Rubin KH, Asendorph JB (editors). Social withdrawal, inhibition and shyness in childhood. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum; 1993. 81-100.
17. 17 Wyman PA, Cowen EL, Work WC, Kerley JH. The role of children's future expectations in self-system functioning and adjustment to life stress: a prospective study of urban at-risk children. Dev Psychopathol 1993; 5:649-661.
18. 18 Shure MB. Interpersonal cognitive problem solving: primary prevention of early high-risk behaviors in the preschool and primary years. In: Albee GW, Gullota TP (editors). Primary prevention works. (Issues in children's and families' lives, vol 6). London: SAGE; 1997. pp. 167-188.
19. 19 Bernstein GA, Borchardt CM. Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents; a review of the past 10 years. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1996; 35:1110-1119.
20. 20 LaFreniere PJ, Dumas JE. Social competence and behavior evaluation in children ages 3 to 6 years: the Short Form (SCBE-30). Psychol Assess 1996; 8:369-377.
21. 21 Keller MB, Lavori PW, Wunder J, Beardslee WR, Schwartz CE, Roth J. Chronic course of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1992; 31:595-599.
22. 22 Davey GCL. Classical conditioning and the acquisition of human fears and phobias: a review and synthesis of the literature. Adv Behav Res Ther 1992; 14:29-66.
23. 23 Lazarus RS, Folkman S. Coping and adaptation. In: Gentry WD (editor). Handbook of behavioral medicine. New York: The Guilford Press; 1984. pp. 282-325.
24. 24 Barrett PM, Dadds MR, Rapee RM, Ryan SM. Family enhancement of cognitive style in anxious and aggressive children. J Abnorm Child Psychol 1996; 24:187-203.
25. 25 Dadds MR, Barrett PM, Cobham VE. Anxiety disorders. In: Ollendick TH (editor). Comprehensive clinical psychology, vol. 4: Children and adolescents: clinical formulation and treatment. Vol 5. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, Inc.; 1997. pp. 317-342.
26. 26 Kendall PC. Treating anxiety disorders in children: results of a randomized clinical trial. J Consult Clin Psychol 1994; 62:100-110.
27. 27 Kendall PC, Flannery-Schoeder E, Paanichelli-Mindel SM, Southam-Gerow M, Henin A, Warman M. Therapy for youths with anxiety disorders: a second randomized clinical trial. J Consult Clin Psychol 1997; 65:366-380. This is ground-breaking research. Treatment effects are shown to be lasting over 4 years, using Kendall's FEAR plan for working with anxious children.
28. 28 Dadds MR, Rapee RM, Barrett PM. Behavioral observation. In: Ollendick TH, King NJ, Yule W (editors). International handbook of phobic and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. NY: Plenum Press; 1994. pp. 349-364.
29. 29 Kendall PC, Kane M, Howard B, Siqueland L. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious children: treatment manual. (Available from Philip C. Kendall, Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA) 1990.
30. 30 Barrett PM, Dadds MR, Rapee RM, Ryan SM. Family treatment of childhood anxiety: a controlled trial. J Consult Clin Psychol 1996; 64:333-342.
31. 31 Cobham VE, Dadds MR, Spence SH. The role of parental anxiety in the treatment of childhood anxiety. J Consult Clin Psychol 1998; 66:893-905. This interesting study demonstrates the adverse effect of parental anxiety on treatment outcome, and also how to manage it.
32. 32 McDonald L, Billingham S, Conrad T, Morgan A, Nancy O. Families and schools together (FAST): integrating community development with clinical strategies. Fam Soc 1997; 78:140-155.
33. 33 Weissberg RP, Caplan MZ, Sivo PJ. A new conceptual framework for establishing school-based social competence promotion programs. In: Bond LA, Compas BE (editors). Primary prevention and promotion in the schools. (Primary prevention of psychopathology, vol XII). London: SAGE; 1989. pp. 255-296.
34. 34 The Consortium on the School-Based Promotion of Social Competence. The school-based promotion of social competence: theory, research, practice, and policy. In: Haggerty RJ, Sherrod LR, Garmezy N, Rutter M, eds. Stress, risk and resilience in children and adolescents. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press; 1994. pp. 268-316.