Anxiety disorders are common in children and adolescents and can be debilitating if not recognized and treated. This issue covers the landscape of anxiety disorders in youth, from development and neurobiology; to treatments, advances, and novel approaches; to informing other systems of care: primary physicians, schools, and parents. Specific anxiety disorders discussed include: Obsessive-compulsive and tic-related disorders, PTSD, and school refusal and panic disorder. Pharmacotherapy, CBT, and Parent-Child interaction therapies are reviewed.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, sertraline, or a combination in childhood anxiety. N Engl J Med 2008;359(26):2753–66. 71. Kendall PC, Hedtke KA. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious children: therapist manual. 3rd edition.
Schools can play an important role in addressing the unmet mental health needs of youth by potentially increasing access to care in a cost-effective manner.
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescent are among the most frequent psychiatric complaints, and this issue provides a valuable update.
Psychopharmacology is a dominant treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry with proven benefits to young patients.
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Another pharmacokinetic study of adolescents tested the half-life of (R)-citalopram and (S)-citalopram after a single 20-mg dose and after 2 weeks of 20 mg/day.26 Similar to the escitalopram study, the single-dose and steady state ...
Treating Adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder in Schools Julie L. Ryan, PhDa, Carrie Masia Warner, PhDb,c,d,* KEYWORDS • Social anxiety • Adolescents • School-based treatment • Dissemination Social anxiety disorder, characterized by ...
Non-Hispanic Black youth make up approximately 14%, or just over 10 million, of the youth population in the United States. This is a number that has remained relatively the same over the last decade, although there has been a slight, ...
New to This Edition *Includes DSM-5 criteria and discussion of changes. *Incorporates over a decade's worth of research advances in genetics, neurobiology, and other areas. *Chapters on bipolar disorder, suicide/self-injury, obsessive ...
[Pearson] The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III), is a battery assessing the developmental functioning of children ages 1–42 months. It yields information in five domains: Social-Emotional ...