Clinical phenomenology, classification and assessment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents

Assessing child and adolescent anxiety in psychiatric samples with the Child Behavior Checklist

“…It deploys six axes: clinical psychiatric syndromes (axis I); specific disorders of psychological development (axis II); intellectual level (axis III); medical conditions (axis IV); associated abnormal psychosocial situations (axis V) and assessment of psychosocial disability (axis VI). Differences between the MC/ICD-10 and DSM-IV are in general comparatively small (Cooper, 2003), although MC/ICD-10 has fewer investigations of its diagnostic categories (Fonseca & Perrin, 2001). Moderate to fair inter-reliability for axis VI was found among clinicians, within and across different countries (Dyrborg et al, 2000;Hanssen-Bauer et al, 2007).…”

Relations Among Children's Coping Strategies and Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Coping Efficacy

“…The physiological aspect of anxiety encompasses any bodily response, including increased heart rate, headaches, and stomach aches (Beidel & Turner, 2005). At the subjective or cognitive level, responses may consist of worry, fearful apprehensions, or distorted and maladaptive cognitions (Craske et al, 2009;Fonseca & Perrin, 2001). Cantwell and Baker (1989) conducted a longitudinal study of a large sample of children with anxiety disorders.…”

Anxiety‐Related Reasoning Biases in Children and Adolescents

“…Physical sensations such as palpitations, sweating and trembling are part and parcel of the anxiety response (Lang, 1968) and there is evidence that such sensations also occur in anxious youths (see Fonseca and Perrin, 2001). Arntz, Rauner and Van den Hout (1995) demonstrated that adult patients with anxiety disorders tend to employ these physical anxiety symptoms as a parameter for evaluating the dangerousness of a situation.…”