Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Anxiety Disorders 101

Subject review

Pine DS, Klein RG. (2008) Anxiety disorders.In: Rutter Met al.(eds)Rut-
ter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 5th edn. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester,
pp. 628–647.

Further reading

Barrett PM. (1998) Evaluation of cognitive-behavioural group treatments
for childhood anxiety disorders.Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 27 ,
459–468.
Biederman Jet al. (1993) A three-year follow-up of children with and
without behavioral inhibition.Journal of the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry 32 , 814–821. (This examines the extent to which
childhood anxiety disorders are in continuity with one of the most
widely studied traits of early childhood.)
Compton SNet al. (2004) Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for anxiety
and depressive disorders in children and adolescents. Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 43 , 930–959.
Lewinsohn PMet al. (2008) Separation anxiety disorder in childhood as
a risk factor for future mental illness.Journal of the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 47 , 548–555.