Full Description
Anxiety in Preschool Children provides a comprehensive, integrated, and scientifically current resource for both clinicians and researchers who work with or encounter anxiety in preschool-aged children. With a focus on organizing and consolidating the most current research, this informative new volume offers an assortment of practical interventions and evidence-based strategies for assessment, treatment, and prevention that are tailored to preschool-aged children. This groundbreaking volume will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone working with this unique patient population, from parents to practitioners.
Contents
Introduction
1 Epidemiology and Nosology of Preschool Anxiety Disorders
CHELSEY S. BARRIOS, KATHERINE A. LEPPERT, AND LEA R. DOUGHERTY
2 Preschool Anxiety: Risk and Protective Factors
NICHOLAS D. MIAN AND SARAH A.O. GRAY
3 Normative Fears in Preschool-Aged Children
LAUREN PHILLIPS, NATALIE GAMES, JENNIFER SCHEURICH,
PAULA BARRETT AND BRIAN FISAK
4 Assessment of Fear and Anxiety in Preschool Children:
Parent and Teacher Report
SUSAN H. SPENCE
5 Assessment of Fear and Anxiety in Preschool Children: Selfreport
and Observational Measures
PETER MURIS
6 The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Preschool-Aged
Children
PAULA BARRETT, NATALIE GAMES, BRIAN FISAK, PAUL STALLARD AND
LAUREN PHILLIPS
7 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Preschool-Aged Children
MARINA INIESTA-SEPÚLVEDA AND ERIC A. STORCH
8 Trauma and PTSD in Preschool-Aged Children
ANN-CHRISTIN HAAG, SHANA CELI AND MARKUS A. LANDOLT
9 Selective Mutism in Preschool-Aged Children
R. LINDSEY BERGMAN AND ARACELI GONZALEZ
10 Prevention of Anxiety in Preschool-Aged Children
BRIAN FISAK, LAUREN PERSAD, JULIA GALLEGOS AND PAULA BARRETT
11 Psychopharmacological Treatment of Anxiety in Preschool-Aged Children
ANUJA MEHTA, JASMINE REYES AND BRIAN FISAK
Concluding Remarks
PAULA BARRETT AND BRIAN FISAK
Index
