Summary: In the Dresden Child Anxiety Study (DKAS) we examined a representative sample of N = 826 eight-year-olds regarding their anxiety by means of children's self-report as well as ratings by parents and teachers. In addition, 230 of the children took ...
Prevalences and Lifetime Prevalences of Affective Disorders and Anxiety Disorders After StrokeThe study deals with prevalence rates of particular mental disorders in stroke in-patients during rehabilitation. Out of the 180 patients (Ps) of the sample, 38 ...
Do Even Eight-Year-Olds Suffer from Panic Disorder? Prevalence Study focussing upon Panic Disorder and AgoraphobiaSummary: A representative sample of 826 eight-year-old second-graders in Dresden was examined in a two-stage procedure to ascertain the 6-...
This article investigates the psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS). A group of 704 adolescents completed the questionnaires in their classrooms. This study examines potential confirmatory factor analysis factor ...
Can a specific assessment of attention contribute to the differential diagnostics of psychiatric disorders?Summary:Objectives: The present study examined whether or not children and adolescents with clinical symptoms can be differentiated according to ...
Efficacy of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic interventions in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders - A systematic evaluation of meta-analyses and reviews. Part I: Anxiety disorders and depressive disordersSummary:Objective: In recent ...
Hintergrund: Die Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) geht mit einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Komorbiditäten einher, die sich zum Teil als Komplikation und in Folge der Kernsymptomatik, aber auch parallel zusammen mit der Grunderkrankung ...
The Spider Phobia Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SPQ-CA) – development and validation of a German short scaleObjective: Spider phobia is rather common in Western societies and mainly afflicts females. The disorder has a very early onset but ...
The powerlessness of thoughts – metacognitive therapy for children and adolescents Abstract. Metacognitive therapy (MCT) is a further development of cognitive therapy and was developed by Adrian Wells in the 1990s ...
Discrimination of anxiety disorders by parent ratings: A study based on the Questionnaire for Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (FBB-ANZ)Abstract. Parent ratings are often used for screening during the ...
Somatic Complaints in Patients with Mental Disorders: Systematization and Psychotherapeutic ImplicationsSummary. Hardly any systematization aids and psychotherapeutic treatment considerations regarding somatic complaints in patients with mental disorders ...
Neurobiological Correlates of Psychotherapy in Anxiety and Personality Disorders – A Review on Structural and Functional NeuroimagingResearch on functional correlates of psychotherapeutic effects meets with great interest because this scientific approach ...
Anxiety DisordersAnxiety disorders are among the most frequent mental disorders in adulthood. During the past decades, pharmacotherapy and behaviour therapy have been established as state-of-the-art treatments. Evidence for these strategies is critically ...
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Anxiety Disorders in Elderly PatientsThe need for psychotherapy for elder patients is constantly rising. Reasons are the changed population composition as well as the increased readiness of older patients to take up ...
Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety DisordersThe modern pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders is based on the observation of Donald Klein and Max Fink that the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine has antipanic properties. Subsequently, different anxiety disorders ...
Psychological Condition, Ailments and Impairments: Results from a Representative StudyAbstract. The survey of global ailments and mental states is a fundamental part of the clinical diagnostic process. It is known that anxiety disorders and depression ...
A Matter of Attention? A Systematic Review of the Effects of Computer-Delivered Modification of Attentional Bias on AnxietyAbstract.Attentional biases toward threat cues are a well-known phenomenon in anxiety disorders. Recently, computer-delivered ...
Zusammenfassung: Die Rolle der Emotionsregulation als ein bedeutsamer Einflussfaktor für psychische Störungen wird zunehmend diskutiert. Angststörungen zählen im Kindes- und Jugendalter zu den häufigsten psychischen Störungen, wobei der Einfluss der ...
Emotional learning: A naturalistic experimental paradigm for investigating fear acquisition and extinction using aversive filmsFear conditioning constitutes a well-established experimental paradigm in research on development and maintenance of anxiety ...
Metacognitive therapiesMetacognition is an umbrella term that has been adopted by different clinical theories. A common denominator of these models is that they are concerned with cognitive processes (i. e., how people think) contributing to mental ...