An Introduction to the Study of Information Processing Biases in Childhood Anxiety: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety: A Developmental Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-17

  Hadwin, Julie A ^a   Field, Andy P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety, an emotion in early childhood following a typical developmental course; Early occurrence of anxiety in childhood adaptive function facilitating detection of threat or danger; Effortful control, enhanced in children aged between 4 and 6 years using training programmes; Emergence of anxiety disorders developmental pattern to anxieties seen in typical development; Fears related to the dark and to imaginary creatures around 5 6 years of age; Information processing biases and anxiety; Information processing biases in childhood anxiety; Notion of automatic processing in information processing biases; Origin and treatment of information processing biases in childhood anxiety; Study of information processing biases in childhood anxiety theoretical and methodological issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860133599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661468.ch1     Document Type: Editorial

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