4. Pt 1 - Childhood Anxiety Flashcards
Children can be diagnosed with a____ of the a____ d____ that adults are diagnosed with
any, anxiety disorders
Children used to have one special disorder of their own - ‘s____ a____ d____’, but now adults can get this too
separation anxiety disorder
It was found that __% of 5-10 year olds had an anxiety disorder in The British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey in 20__. In 17-19 year olds, __% were found to have an anxiety disorder
3.9%
2017
13.1%
Childhood anxiety often doesn’t get s____/r____ until it is very s____. Some research shows that only __% of children with p____ get any treatment for it. Even then it is often only treated once the child has become a____
spotted/referred, serious
2%
panic
agoraphobic
Children of anxious p____ are around t____ as likely to have an anxiety disorder than children with no anxious p____
parents, twice, parents
In a 2001 review by Hettema et al., panic disorder was __-__% heritable, GAD was __% heritable and phobias were __-__% heritable
30-40%
31.6%
20-40%
Gregory and Eley (2007) point out that heritability estimates depend on:
1. The s____ of the anxiety being measured
2. The t____ of anxiety being measured
3. Who is r____ on the anxiety
4. A____… heritability seems to i____ with a____
- severity
- type
- reporting
- Age, increase, age
Two types of parenting may cause child anxiety disorders in genetically sensitive children:
1. An a____, o____ parent
2. A very s____, p____ parent
- Anxious, overprotective
- strict, punitive
O____/o____ is associated with child anxiety
Overcontrol/overprotection
Children l____ fears easily from o____ p____. This is particularly important when the child has an a____ p____
learn, other people
anxious parent
Clayborne et al.’s (2020) review found that parenting was i____ a____ with a____ a____
inconsistently associated with adolescent anxiety
When comparing CBT with a passive control, the effect size was…
-0.76 (moderate to large)
When comparing CBT with an active control group, the effect size was…
-0.35 (small)
Treatment with CBT for a s____ d____ was better than treatment for g____ a____
specific disorder
generic anxiety
O____ t____ o____ CBT treatment was better than g____ t____
one to one
group treatment
In CBT, a____ did better than y____ c____
adolescents
younger children
In Walkup et al. (2008) New England Journal of Medicine experiment, what % of children were ‘much improved’ or better after the following treatments:
1. CBT
2. Sertraline
3. CBT & sertraline
4. Placebo pill
____ had fewer side effects than ____
In the long-term, lots of the children r____, and none of the treatment groups ended up s____ b____ than the others
- 59.7%
- 54.9%
- 80.7%
- 23.7%
CBT, sertraline
relapsed, significantly better
Graded Exposure to Feared Stimuli includes:
1. Put the e____ g____ at the top
2. Put what the child is c____ of n____ at the bottom
3. Fill in with lots of s____ s____
4. Get the child to p____ each step until they are c____ with it then m____ u____ a step
5. Give tons of p____ and r____ whenever they p____
- end goal
- capable, now
- small steps
- practice, comfortable, move up
- praise, rewards, practice
V____ l____ is very important in the development of childhood anxiety
Vicarious learning
