Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this landmark work brings together leading experts to comprehensively examine all aspects of childhood-onset anxiety disorders. The volume presents the major theoretical perspectives currently informing research and clinical practice, reviews key issues in assessment and diagnosis, and marshals the latest findings on each disorder and its treatment. All chapters in the second edition have been extensively rewritten to reflect significant advances in theory and research, including the results of controlled treatment studies. Important new chapters have been added on behavioral genetics, combined cognitive-behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy, and prevention. Additionally, separate chapters now cover several disorders that were previously addressed in less depth: generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias, separation anxiety, and panic.

Tracy L. Morris, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at West Virginia University, where she currently serves as Associate Chair of the department and Coordinator of the child clinical psychology doctoral program. She received a BS and an MS degree in psychology from Pittsburg State University (Kansas) and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Morris completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina, specializing in child clinical psychology. Her primary research focus is on the developmental psychopathology of anxiety disorders.

John S. March, MD, MPH, is Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. He received a BA from the University of California at Riverside and an MS in molecular biology from the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained an MD-MPH (epidemiology) from the UCLA School of Medicine, where he later completed a residency in Family Practice. Following several years as a family practitioner in rural Montana, Dr. March trained in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin/n-/Madison. He has extensive experience developing and testing treatments for pediatric mental disorders and has published widely on obsessive/n-/compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and pediatric psychopharmacology.