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Family treatment of childhood anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2019

Vanessa E. Cobham
Vanessa E. Cobham*
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Phone: (07) 3365 6411, Fax: (07) 3365 4466, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Anxiety disorders are the most common form of psychopathology reported by children and adolescents and significantly affect a child's ability to deal with normal developmental challenges. Fortunately, the efficacy of cognitive-behavioural interventions with anxmus children and adolescents has been clearly demonstrated. Most recently, however, treatment outcome research in this area has demonstrated the relative superiority of cognitive-behavioural interventions involving the family as well as the anxious child. Through the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Project at the University of Queensland, an integrated intervention involving a parent-focused component (the “Do as I Do” program) and a child-focused component (the “Facing your Fears” program) has been developed and is currently being evaluated. The present paper outlmes the type of research conducted within the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Project, the need for intervention in childhood anxiety, the treatment outcome data on which the development of this integrated intervention has been based, the content of each session in the intervention, and clinical observations and reflections made by clinicians involved in the administration of the intervention.

Keywords

family-focusedtreatmentchild anxiety
Type
Special Section: Child anxiety programs
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , May 1999 , pp. 25 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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