What do childhood anxiety disorders predict?

Abstract

Anxiety disorders in childhood are predictors of a range of psychiatric disorders in adolescence. It appears that children meriting a well-defined diagnosis are missed by the current rules for the diagnosis of GAD. Future studies should examine whether OAD deserves reconsideration as a nosological entity.

Threat-Related Selective Attention Predicts Treatment Success in Childhood Anxiety Disorders

“…3 Several randomized controlled trials 4 have demonstrated that 50% to 70% of children with anxiety disorders are free of their primary anxiety diagnosis after cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). 5 A substantial minority of children with anxiety disorders, however, does not show a clinically significant improvement after CBT.…”

The Prediction of Clinically Relevant Anxiety Symptoms in Early Adulthood: Direct and Indirect Effects of Childhood and Parental Factors

“…Associations of lower selfefficacy with anxiety symptoms and disorders have been shown in several studies [22,23]. Thus, we expected a reduced sense of personal control in young children to constitute a mediator between a negative restrictive family environment, parents` worrying and subsequent negative affect and anxiety symptoms [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36].…”

“…Most studies on the significance of these variables for the manifestation of anxiety had some weaknesses regarding limitations in the operationalization of constructs, their cross-sectional study design or retrospectively assessed data [34,37]. The current study included therefore parental worrying and dysfunctional parenting, in the sense of restrictive behavior as well as reproach and inconsistent behavior and the latter assessed as perceived and recalled behavior of the parents estimated by the child.…”

Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia Across the Lifespan

“…The 12-month prevalence of agoraphobia is approximately 1.7% in adolescents and adults (Kessler et al, 2012;Wittchen et al, 2011). Onset of agoraphobia can occur during childhood but the most vulnerable periods to develop the disorder are late adolescence and early adulthood (Beesdo et al, 2009;Bittner et al, 2007). The gender ratio is 2:1 with females experiencing twice as often agoraphobia as men .…”