Severity is strongly associated with more improvement when irrelevant variance in common with non-anxiety comorbidity is removed, therefore researchers should consider removing the irrelevant variance of parent - reported pre-treatment overall severity when considering relations between
non-anxious comorbidity and parent reported change in internalizing and externalizing problems.
The study focuses on the impact of total and
non-anxious comorbidity and overall severity on outcome by addressing the following questions: (1) Does total and / or
non-anxious comorbidity predict recovery above and beyond overall severity?
(3) Does total and / or
non-anxious comorbidity predict Reliable Change in non-anxiety symptoms (self - reported depressive symptoms and parent - reported externalizing symptoms) above and beyond overall severity?