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Trajectories of change in youth anxiety during cognitive—behavior therapy.

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Peris, Tara S., Compton, Scott N., Kendall, Philip C., Birmaher, Boris, Sherrill, Joel, March, John, Gosch, Elizabeth, Ginsburg, Golda +11 more·2015·Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate changes in the trajectory of youth anxiety following the introduction of specific cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) components: relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, and exposure tasks. METHOD: Four hundred eighty-eight youths ages 7-17 years (50% female; 74% ≤ 12 years) were randomly assigned to receive either CBT, sertraline (SRT), their combination (COMB), or pill placebo (PBO) as part of their participation in the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS). Youths in the CBT conditions were evaluated weekly by therapists using the Clinical Global Impression Scale-Severity (CGI-S; Guy, 1976) and the Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS; Shaffer et al., 1983) and every 4 weeks by blind independent evaluators (IEs) using the Pediatric Anxiety Ratings Scale (PARS; RUPP Anxiety Study Group, 2002). Youths in SRT and PBO were included as controls. RESULTS: Longitudinal discontinuity analyses indicated that the introduction of both cognitive restructuring (e.g., changing self-talk) and exposure tasks significantly accelerated the rate of progress on measures of symptom severity and global functioning moving forward in treatment; the introduction of relaxation training had limited impact. Counter to expectations, no strategy altered the rate of progress in the specific domain of anxiety that it was intended to target (i.e., somatic symptoms, anxious self-talk, avoidance behavior). CONCLUSIONS: Findings support CBT theory and suggest that cognitive restructuring and exposure tasks each make substantial contributions to improvement in youth anxiety. Implications for future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Peris, T. S., Compton, S. N., Kendall, P. C., Birmaher, B., Sherrill, J., March, J., Gosch, E., Ginsburg, G., Rynn, M., McCracken, J. T., Keeton, C. P., Sakolsky, D., Suveg, C., Aschenbrand, S., Almirall, D., Iyengar, S., Walkup, J. T., Albano, A. M., & Piacentini, J.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Duke Medical Center (US)
  • Temple University (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (US)
  • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
  • University of Georgia (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
Venue
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Published
2015
Volume
83
Issue
2
Pages
239-252
ISSN
  • 0022-006X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-2117
OpenAlex
W2050484358
Cited by
191
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 4
FWCI
13.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Commons - PCOM (Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (K23 MH085058, K23-MH075843)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
Keywords
youth anxiety, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, exposure therapy, relaxation training, sertraline, treatment trajectories, discontinuity analysis, somatic symptoms, avoidance behavior, childhood anxiety
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Combined Modality Therapy, Female, Humans, Male, Relaxation Therapy, Anti-Anxiety Agents, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Treatment Outcome, Sertraline

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