Full Description
Pediatric Anxiety Disorders provides a critical, updated and comprehensive overview of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents based on the current state of empirical research. The book provides specific clinical recommendations which integrate new knowledge from neuroscience and innovative delivery formats for interventions. This is the first reference to examine anxiety diagnoses in accordance with the latest edition of the DSM-5, including childhood onset disorders, such as Separation Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism, Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The book assists clinicians in critically appraising the certainty of the evidence-base and the strength of clinical recommendations.
Contents
Section I. Foundations
1. Introduction
2. What is anxiety?
3. The genetic basis of child and adolescent anxiety
4. Etiological factors: Basic neuroscience
5. Etiological factors: Temperament and personality
6. Etiological factors; environment
Section II. Disorders
7. Specific phobia
8. Separation Anxiety disorder
9. Panic disorder and agoraphobia
10. Social anxiety disorder: An update on diagnostics; epidemiology; etiology; assessment, treatment; unanswered questions, and future directions
11. Selective mutism
12. Pediatric generalized anxiety disorder
13. Comorbidity in anxiety disorders
Section III. Interventions
14. Assessment of pediatric anxiety
15. Cognitive-behavioral therapy
16. Third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapies for the treatment of anxiety among children and adolescents
17. Pharmacologic treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders
18. New deliveries and technology
19. Dissemination and implementation
Section IV. Special Issues
20. When children and adolescents don't go to school: Terminology, technology, and trends
21. Ethnic and cultural considerations
22. Anxiety in emerging adulthood: A developmentally informed treatment model
23. Back to the future: Tracing the footsteps of Mary Cover Jones - The treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders
