Background Anxiety and depression occurring during childhood and adolescence are
common and costly. While early‐emerging anxiety and depression can arise through a …

With contributions from a global team of experts this book provides a comprehensive
overview of information processing biases in children and adolescents. The first book to …

BackgroundStructural models of emotional disorders propose that anxiety disorders can be
classified into fear and distress disorders. Sources of evidence for this distinction come from …

When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge
early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the neurocognitive …

The aim of this paper is to explore parenting as one potential route through which
information processing biases for threat develop in children. It reviews information …

We have seen throughout this book that there is compelling evidence that anxiety
vulnerability is associated with distinctive patterns of attentional and interpretive bias …

In contrast to the impressive body of research on information-processing factors in adult
anxiety disorders that has accumulated across the past 15 years or so, studies of cognitive …

Background The present study sought to clarify the development of comorbid emotional
distress by comparing different explanations for how youth develop anxiety and depressive …

Background: Twin studies in children reveal that familial aggregation of anxiety disorders is
due to both genetic and environmental factors. Cognitive biases for threat information are …

Theories of temperament suggest that individual differences in affective reactivity (eg,
negative affectivity) may confer risk for internalizing psychopathology in youth and that self …