Predictors of the Course of Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Asselmann, Eva ^a   Beesdo Baum, Katja ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anxiety; Chronicity; Course; Environmental; Familial; Individual; Persistence; Predictor; Recurrence; Remission; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; INCOME; LIFE EVENT; MARRIAGE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; TEMPERAMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921904145     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-014-0543-z     Document Type: Review

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