Assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-110

  Connolly, Sucheta D ^a   Suarez, Liza ^a   Sylvester, Carrie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Sound Mental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; CBT; Childhood anxiety disorders; Psychopharmacology; Screening

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUSPIRONE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLONAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; LORAZEPAM; PAROXETINE; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; AKATHISIA; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; APATHY; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLURRED VISION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPEPSIA; ENURESIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY DISORDER; MUTISM; NAUSEA; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PULSE RATE; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOMNOLENCE; SWEATING; THERAPY EFFECT; TIC; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREMOR; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79955898524     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-010-0173-z     Document Type: Review

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