The tendency to disproportionately allocate attention to threat stimuli, to evaluate ambiguous
or benign situations as overly threatening, and to exhibit overgeneralised and indiscriminate …

Anxiety disorders are one of the most common psychiatric disorders in the general child
population and can have significant impact on immediate and long-term functioning. Despite …

The present study examined the relative predictive value of parental anxiety, parents'
expectation of child threat bias, and family dysfunction on child's threat bias in a clinical …

Anxiety disorders in older children and adolescents have long been acknowledged as
impairing, persistent and predictive of future anxiety and mood-related disorders. Until …

Many anxiety disorders begin in adolescence. Early interventions that target adolescent
anxiety may prevent later disabling consequences. Previous studies show that cognitive …

Across clinical and subclinical samples, anxiety has been associated with increased
attentional capture by cues signaling danger. Various cognitive models attribute the onset …

Select research and practice issues that merit further attention are described. Specifically,
we argue that the pathways for profitable research include studies of normative …

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorder among children and
adolescents. We examined 111 treatment outcome studies testing 204 treatment conditions …

Abstract Theory and treatment for childhood anxiety disorders typically implicates children's
negative cognitions, yet little is known about the characteristics of thinking styles of clinically …

This article provides a brief overview of cognitive–behavioral theory and its application in
understanding and treating anxiety in youths. Research investigations have examined the …