Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Preface Wendy K. Silverman and Philip D. A. Treffers; 1. Anxiety and its disorders in children and adolescents before the twentieth century Philip D. A. Treffers and Wendy K. Silverman; 2. Affective and cognitive processes and the development and maintenance of anxiety and its disorders Pier J. M. Prins; 3. Behavioural inhibition and the development of childhood anxiety disorders Jaap Oosterlaan; 4. Psychosocial developmental theory in relation to anxiety and its disorders P. Michael Westenberg, Berend M. Siebelink and Philip D. A. Treffers; 5. Neuropsychiatry of paediatric anxiety disorders Floyd R. Salee and John S. March; 6. Clinical phenomenology, classification and assessment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents Antonio C. Fonseca and Sean Perrin; 7. Friends or foes? Peer influences on anxiety among children and adolescents Annette M. La Greca; 8. Conditioning models of childhood anxiety Andy P. Field and Graham C. L. Davey; 9. Traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder William Yule, Sean Perrin and Patrick Smith; 10. Family and genetic influences: is anxiety 'all in the family'? Frits Boer and Ingeborg Lindhout; 11. Child-parent relations: attachment and anxiety disorders Katharina Manassis; 12. Community and epidemiological aspects of anxiety disorders in children Frank C. Verhulst; 13. Onset, course, and outcome for anxiety disorders in children Lars-Göran Öst; 14. Psychosocial interventions for anxiety disorders Wendy K. Silverman and Steven L. Berman; 15. Pharmacological treatment of paediatric anxiety Sandra L. Stock, John S. Werry and Jon McClellan; 16. Prevention of anxiety disorders: the case of post-traumatic stress disorder Avigdor Klingman; Index.