I highly recommend the use of this book by teens with chronic worry and anxiety as well as for professionals who work
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Accumulating evidence from clinical and nonclinical samples shows that
socially anxious youth are more rejected and less liked by, and receive more negative treatment from peers than their nonanxious counterparts (e.g., Blöte et al. 2007; Spence et al. 1999; Verduin and Kendall 2008).
Therefore, it is important to investigate factors that may buffer emotional reactivity within peer contexts
among anxious youth.
Rabbit, Run (1960) provided our first acquaintance with Harry Angstrom, the harried and
anxious youth yearning to be free from all shackling commitments and responsibilities.
«The possibility that we can identify ways of delivering treatment to help more clinically
anxious youth within our existing workforce has tremendous implications for our health system and our economy,» said Mary Lou Chatterton, PharmD, another study author.
Findings inform our understanding of parenting influences
on anxious youth's emotional reactivity to developmentally salient negative events during the transition into adolescence.
Examined the efficacy of an Emotion - focused Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (ECBT) for six
anxious youths ages 7 — 13 years.
Anxious youth exhibit heightened emotional reactivity, particularly to social - evaluative threat, such as peer evaluation and feedback, compared to non-anxious youth.
Additionally, high -
anxious youth scoring high on CU traits (secondary variant) were significantly more likely to report a history of negative life events and PTSD symptoms than were lower anxious boys scoring high on CU traits (primary type) and non-psychopathic youth.
«Conducting exposures
for anxious youth is deceptively straightforward, so when treatment fails, practitioners are often unsure how to proceed.
This study, therefore, aims to examine whether parents» philosophies towards meta - emotion is related to ER in
clinically anxious youth.
«Mental health professionals now have their «consultant on a shelf» for conducting exposures
with anxious youth.
Established in 2013, the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP) is one of only a handful of programs in the country to provide intensive and evidence - based treatment for
anxious youth.
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Parental psychopathology and treatment outcome for
anxious youth: Roles of family functioning and caregiver strain.
Improvements in family functioning through reducing caregiver stress can influence the success of outcomes for
anxious youths (Schleider et.
The OCDI Jr. is one of only two programs in the country to provide this form of residential evidence - based treatment for
anxious youth.
Moreover, normative developmental changes during the transition into adolescence may exacerbate emotional reactivity to peer negative events, particularly for
anxious youth.
Ethnicity's Role in the Relationship Between Anxiety and Negative Interpretation Bias Among Clinically
Anxious Youth: A Pilot Study.
[jounal] Suveg, C. / 2006 / A multiple - baseline evaluation of an emotion - focused cognitive - behavioral therapy for
anxious youth / Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 36: 77 ~ 85
The current study examined the role of parenting behaviors in child emotional reactivity to peer and non-peer negative events among 86
anxious youth in middle childhood to adolescence (Mean age = 11.29, 54 % girls).
Prior research indicates that
both anxious youth and socially withdrawn youth tend to experience challenges and difficulties in various aspects of their peer relationships and social functioning.
The present study examined the relative predictive value of parental anxiety, parents» expectation of child threat bias, and family dysfunction on child's threat bias in a clinical sample of
anxious youth.
Even though non-clinical youth can show ER deficits, clinically
anxious youth have been identified as displaying significantly more emotional competence deficits than non-clinical youth (e.g., Suveg et al. 2008; Suveg and Zeman 2004).
Discusses the potential roles of parents in cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT) with
anxious youth and how parents can both facilitate and / or impede treatment progress.
These deficits include more difficulty regulating negative emotions (Hurrell et al. 2015; Suveg and Zeman 2004), lower confidence and knowledge about how to modify emotional states (Southam - Gerow and Kendall 2000; Suveg and Zeman 2004), and parents report that
anxious youth are generally more emotionally labile and negative (Hurrell et al. 2015; Suveg and Zeman 2004).
Although researchers have examined the relationship between parents» meta - emotions and poor ER in non-clinical youth (Gottman et al. 1996), to date, researchers have not examined whether parents» meta - emotions relate to poor ER in clinically
anxious youth.
In this study, families of clinically
anxious youth and non-clinically anxious youth will be compared so that differences in parental meta - emotion and child ER can be identified.
Moreover, when
anxious youth with poor ER are compared to anxious youth who do not have poor ER, greater impairments in social functioning and more difficulties with several mood states are apparent (e.g., Kerns et al. 2014).