2nd Edition
Child Anxiety Disorders A Guide to Research and Treatment, 2nd Edition
Childhood anxiety disorders represent one of the most common psychological disorders found among the general population. They can be serious, distressful, and functionally impairing, so much so that there has been an explosion of interest in their treatment, primarily from pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral perspectives.
Addressing these perspectives is the Second Edition of Child Anxiety Disorders. Beidel and Alfano pay close attention to new pharmacological and psychological interventions as well as multi-center trials that compare single and combined treatment modalities. Additionally, they include new case studies, sections on stability of childhood fears and the longitudinal course of anxiety disorders, and a new chapter on sleep and anxiety disorders. Written on the cusp of newly published information and studies, Child Anxiety Disorders is relevant, informative, and indispensible.
Part I: Overview of Childhood Fears and Anxiety
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Children’s Fears: Presents a historical overview of the conceptualization of fear in children, its current context and the developmental hierarchy of fears in children.
Chapter 2: An Introduction to Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Reviews the conceptualization of anxiety disorders, including examining each of its core components: physiological response, subjective or cognitive distress, and behavioral/escape avoidance. It will also review the epidemiology of childhood anxiety disorders both in the United States and internationally as well as general treatment considerations that affect treatment implementation and outcome.
Chapter 3: Developmental Considerations: Covers many significant developmental periods including infancy and toddlerhood, pre-adolescence, and adolescence. It also addresses how clinicians approach the assessment and treatment of these populations.
Chapter 4: Sleep and Anxiety Disorders(new chapter): Focuses on the role of sleep in the development, trajectory, and treatment of anxiety disorders in children.
Chapter 5: Etiological Factors in the Development of Anxiety Disorders: This is one of the area where there is burgeoning research literature in the area of neuroanatomy and neurobiology. In addition to updating the biological factors that may predict the development of childhood anxiety disorder, psychological, cognitive, and behavioral theories will also be addressed.
Part II: Anxiety Disorders in Children
Chapter 6: Dental Fears, Medical Fears, and Chronic Medical Illnesses: Reviews the literature on illnesses, such as recurrent abdominal pain, that often have an anxiety basis, as well as other medical and dental fears.
Chapter 7: Excessive Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Compares childhood worry and the diagnostic category of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, including its demographic and clinical presentation, comorbidity, and treatment outcome. This chapter will conclude with an extended case example.
Chapter 8: Specific Phobias: Examines the different subtypes of phobias included in the diagnostic category of Specific Phobia. Concludes with extended case examples illustrating the treatment of different types of phobia.
Chapter 9: School Refusal: Examines school phobia as an avoidance behavior that may be part of the clinical presentation of many different anxiety disorders.
Chapter 10: Separation Anxiety Disorder: Examines Separation Anxiety Disorder, including its demographic and clinical presentation, comorbidity, developmental features, assessment strategies, treatment implementation, and treatment outcome. Concludes with an extended case example.
Chapter 11: Social Phobia and Selective Mutism: Compares childhood shyness and the diagnostic categories of Social Phobia and Selective Mutism, including demographic and clinical presentation, comorbidity, developmental features, assessment strategies, treatment implementation, and outcome. Concludes with an extended case example.
Chapter 12: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trichotillomania: Examines the diagnostic categories of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trichotillomania.
Chapter 13: Panic Disorder: Examines the diagnostic category of Panic Disorder and concludes with an extended case example.
Chapter 14: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A substantially revised chapter that examines traumatic grief and the larger category of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
Biography
Deborah C. Beidel, PhD, ABPP, is a professor of psychology and Director of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the University of Central Florida. She is a past chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Accreditation and is the author of over 200 scientific publications.
Candice A. Alfano, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) of The George Washington University School of Medicine. She is the founder and director of the child and adolescent anxiety program at CNMC.
“Deborah Beidel and Candice Alfano have provided an important touchstone work regarding a prevalent and often severe problem among youths, the anxiety disorders. The authors provide wonderful case examples and clearly detail aspects of diagnosis, epidemiology, comorbidity, etiology, assessment, treatment, and much more in this state-of-the-art text. Indeed, the book is a ‘must-have’ for mental health and school-based professionals who work with children or adolescents.” - Christopher A. Kearney, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
“For those who fret about the challenges of ‘keeping up with the literature,’ this second edition is the answer. All that one needs to know about each of the anxiety disorders of childhood is masterfully and comprehensively covered, with plenty of case examples, along with a wonderful synthesis of the latest breakthroughs in theory and research.” - Wendy K. Silverman, Professor of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, USA
