Background Obsessive compulsive disorder is a common and disabling disorder. A
significant proportion of patients manifest a chronic course. Individual randomised controlled …

OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) from
the perspective of information relevant to American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology …

The Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) is a child self-report measure designed to
evaluate symptoms relating to separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive …

Abstract The Conners' Parent Rating Scale (CPRS) is a popular research and clinical tool for
obtaining parental reports of childhood behavior problems. The present study introduces a …

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical
Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible …

This study examined the degree to which anxiety symptoms among children cluster into
subtypes of anxiety problems consistent with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental …

The psychometric properties of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) were examined
with 875 adolescents aged 13 and 14 years. This self-report measure was designed to …

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety sensations which arises from beliefs that these
sensations have harmful somatic, social, or psychological consequences. Over the past …

Anxiety disorders are widely recognized as among the most common psychiatric disorders
affecting children and adolescents (Anderson, Williams, McGee, & Silva, 1987; Bell-Dolan & …

Background In children, exacerbations of tics and obsessive symptoms may occur after
infection with group A β-haemolytic streptococci. If post-streptococcal autoimmunity is the …