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Practitioner Review: Anxiety disorders in children and young people – assessment and treatment

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Creswell, Cathy, Waite, Polly, Hudson, Jennie·2020·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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Despite significant advancements in our knowledge of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents, they continue to be underrecognised and undertreated. It is critical that these disorders are taken seriously in children and young people as they are highly prevalent, have a negative impact on educational, social and health functioning, create a risk of ongoing anxiety and other mental health disorders across the life span and are associated with substantial economic burden. Yet very few children with anxiety disorders access evidence‐based treatments, and there is an urgent need for widespread implementation of effective interventions. This review aimed to provide an overview of recent research developments that will be relevant to clinicians and policymakers, particularly focusing on the development and maintenance of child anxiety disorders and considerations for assessment and treatment. Given the critical need to increase access to effective support, we hope this review will contribute to driving forward a step change in treatment delivery for children and young people with anxiety disorders and their families.

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  • The importance of parent negative reinforcement and parent psychological control in youth anxiety is strongly grounded in theory, research, and clinical practice.

    “The importance of parent negative reinforcement and parent psychological control in youth anxiety is strongly grounded in theory, research, and clinical practice (e.g., Creswell et al., 2020; Ginsburg et al., 1995; McLeod et al., 2007; van der Bruggen et al., 2008).”

    From Boundaries on Parent Involvement in Their Child’s Anxiety Cognitive-Behavioral-Treatment Outcome: Parent Reinforcement and Relationship Behaviors Moderate Outcome (2024) · cites this paper as Creswell et al., 2020

    The Development section reports some longitudinal and experimental evidence linking parental overinvolvement or control to child anxiety, and the treatment-components section reports that reductions in parental psychological control mediated outcomes in one form of CBT (pages not provided). The copy does not establish the claimed importance of parent negative reinforcement, and its qualified account of parental control does not support describing both factors as strongly grounded across theory, research, and clinical practice. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • This study presents the first stepped-care CBT protocol for childhood anxiety developed for use in a primary care setting.

    “However, to our knowledge, this study presents the first stepped-care CBT protocol for childhood anxiety developed for use in a primary care setting.”

    From Developing a primary care-based cognitive behavioral intervention for anxiety in children through a participatory approach: a qualitative study. (2026) · cites this paper as [36]

    The section ‘Psychological interventions for populations at particular risk’ describes stepped-care CBT for childhood anxiety and calls an earlier study its first systematic evaluation. It does not say that the citing study presents the first stepped-care CBT protocol developed for primary care; that novelty claim is the citing authors’ own. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Creswell, C., Waite, P., & Hudson, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Centre for Emotional Health Macquarie University Sydney NSW Australia
Corresponding author
Creswell, Cathy
Venue
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2020-01-21
Volume
61
Issue
6
Pages
628-643
ISSN
  • 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-7610
OpenAlex
W2998775672
Cited by
140
References
164
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 13
FWCI
1.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • CentAUR (University of Reading) (submittedVersion)
  • UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
National Institute on Handicapped Research (NIHR‐RP‐2014‐04‐018, PDF‐2016‐09‐092)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Therapy and Development
Keywords
childhood anxiety disorders, adolescent anxiety, anxiety assessment, anxiety treatment, evidence-based interventions, treatment access, family support
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Humans

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