Bookedited by Wendy K. Silverman, Florida International University, Philip D. A. Treffers, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Anxiety and its disorders in children and adolescents before the twentieth century; Introduction; Educational and medical literature up to the nineteenth century; The first half of the nineteenth century; The contours of child and adolescent psychiatry; Causes of psychiatric disturbance in children and adolescents; Assumptions about the limited prevalence of child psychiatric disturbances; Course of the illness; Anxiety; The second half of the nineteenth century. The birth of child and adolescent psychiatry as a discipline; Anxiety and anxiety disorders in child and adolescent psychiatry; Classification; Treatment; Contributions from psychology and other sciences; Concluding comments; References ; 2 Affective and cognitive processes and the development and maintenance of anxiety and its disorders; Introduction; Cognitive approaches to childhood anxiety; Cognitive development and anxiety-related cognition in children; Patterns of cognition in anxious children; Negative cognition; Positive cognition. Ratio positive-negative self-statements; The SOM model and anxious children's self-talk; The content-specificity hypothesis; The functional value of coping cognitions; Worry in children; Development of an anxious cognitive style in children; Conclusion; References ; 3 Behavioural inhibition and the development of childhood anxiety disorders; Inhibition as a temperamental construct; Temperamental inhibition: a precursor of (childhood) anxiety disorders?; Gray's neuropsychological conceptualization of inhibition: the Behavioural Inhibition System. Evidence for the overfunctioning BIS hypothesis in childhood anxiety disorders; Inhibition in childhood anxiety disorders; concluding remarks; References ; 4 Psychosocial developmental theory in relation to anxiety and its disorders; Introduction; Psychosocial developments in the early years; Psychosocial development in childhood and adolescence; Impulsive level; Self-protective level; Conformist level; Self-aware level; Ego development, fears and anxiety disorders: an integration; Cluster 1 (c. age 5-9); Cluster 2 (c. age 9-13). Cluster 3 (c. age 13-17) Cluster 4 (c. age 17-21); Discussion; Conclusion; References ; 5 Neuropsychiatry of paediatric anxiety disorders; Introduction; The anatomically and chemically addressed 'stress-response system'; 'Stress-response system' neurochemistry and pharmacotherapeutics; Noradrenergic system; Serotonin; Dopamine; GABA-ergic/glutamatergic neurotransmission; Neuropeptides; Models of childhood anxiety disorder; Panic disorder; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Cognitive neuroscience as an integrative perspective; Conclusion.