Pediatric Anxiety Disorders

Pediatric Anxiety Disorders provides a critical, updated and comprehensive overview of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents based on the current state of empirical research. The book provides specific clinical recommendations which integrate new knowledge from neuroscience and innovative delivery formats for interventions. This is the first reference to examine anxiety diagnoses in accordance with the latest edition of the DSM-5, including childhood onset disorders, such as Separation Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism, Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The book assists clinicians in critically appraising the certainty of the evidence-base and the strength of clinical recommendations.

• Uses the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5
• Includes the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach in assessing guideline development
• Focuses on advances in etiology, assessment and treatment
• Presents new advances in our understanding of the brain behind fear and anxiety
• Uses a stepped care approach to treatment

Table of Contents

Section I. Foundations
1. Introduction
2. What is anxiety?
3. The genetic basis of child and adolescent anxiety
4. Etiological factors: Basic neuroscience
5. Etiological factors: Temperament and personality
6. Etiological factors; environment

Section II. Disorders
7. Specific phobia
8. Separation Anxiety disorder
9. Panic disorder and agoraphobia
10. Social anxiety disorder: An update on diagnostics; epidemiology; etiology; assessment, treatment; unanswered questions, and future directions 
11. Selective mutism
12. Pediatric generalized anxiety disorder
13. Comorbidity in anxiety disorders

Section III. Interventions
14. Assessment of pediatric anxiety
15. Cognitive-behavioral therapy
16. Third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapies for the treatment of anxiety among children and adolescents
17. Pharmacologic treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders
18. New deliveries and technology
19. Dissemination and implementation

Section IV. Special Issues
20. When children and adolescents don't go to school: Terminology, technology, and trends
21. Ethnic and cultural considerations
22. Anxiety in emerging adulthood: A developmentally informed treatment model 
23. Back to the future: Tracing the footsteps of Mary Cover Jones – The treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders