Predictors of Change Following Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Children with Anxiety Problems: A Preliminary Investigation on Negative Automatic Thoughts and Anxiety Control

• DOI: 10.1007/s10578-008-0116-7
• Publication Date: 2008-07-25T11:43:14Z
• Authors: Peter Muris; Birgit Mayer; Madelon den Adel; Tamara Roos; Julie van Wamelen
• Keywords: Male; Personality Inventory; Psychometrics; Culture; ESSB PSY; Thinking; Anxiety, Separation; Adaptation, Psychological; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Humans; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health; Child; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; 4. Education; 05 social sciences; Reproducibility of Results; Anxiety Disorders; Psychiatry and Mental health; Treatment Outcome; Phobic Disorders; Original Article; Female; Arousal

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate negative automatic thoughts and anxiety control as predictors change produced by cognitive-behavioral treatment youths with disorders. Forty-five high-anxious children aged between 9 12 years who were selected from primary school population, received a standardized CBT intervention that provided in group format. Before after intervention, completed scales perceived over anxiety-related events well questionnaire for measuring DSM-defined disorders symptoms, which outcome measure. Results indicated effective reducing children's symptoms. Most importantly, reduction symptoms significantly associated decrease an increase control, provides support notion these variables are candidate mediators anxious youths.