Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Anxiety Disorders
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This revised practice parameter reviews the evidence from research and clinical experience and highlights significant advancements in the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders since the previous parameter was published. It highlights the importance of early assessment and intervention, gathering information from various sources, assessment of comorbid disorders, and evaluation of severity and impairment. It presents evidence to support treatment with psychotherapy, medications, and a combination of interventions in a multimodal approach.
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Guidelines often recommend CBT as the first-line treatment, but without evidence that it yields better patient outcomes than beginning with medication.
“They often recommend CBT as the first-line treatment, but without evidence that it yields better patient outcomes than beginning with medication [44–46].”
From A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) study of medication and CBT sequencing in the treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders (2021) · cites this paper as [45]
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- Authors
- Connolly, S. D., & Bernstein, G. A.
- ORCID
- Bernstein, Gail A.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-02
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 267-283
- ISSN
- 0890-8567 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2050818564
- Cited by
- 548
- References
- 127
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 40 · 2015: 36 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 35
- FWCI
- 25.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- 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 › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Keywords
- anxiety disorders, children, adolescents, clinical evaluation, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, multimodal therapy, comorbidities, symptom severity, early intervention
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Combined Modality Therapy, Consensus Statements as Topic, Diagnosis, Differential, Family Therapy, Humans, Personality Assessment, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Anti-Anxiety Agents, Comorbidity, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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