Trial reportDepression and anxiety2013
Benefits of child-focused anxiety treatments for parents and family functioning.
Trial report in Depression and anxiety, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders on Global and Domain-Specific Functioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Pharmacotherapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2017Pooled it
- Impact of treatment improvement on long-term anxiety: Results from CAMS and CAMELS.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Trial
- Behavioral interventions for infant sleep problems: the role of parental cry tolerance and sleep-related cognitions.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020Trial
- Child Anxiety Prevention Study: Impact on Functional Outcomes.Child psychiatry and human development · 2017Trial
- Parental psychopathology and treatment outcome for anxious youth: roles of family functioning and caregiver strain.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2015Trial
- Family Functioning in Families of Children with an Anxiety Disorder, with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Parent Outcomes Following Participation in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Autistic Children in a Community Setting: Parent Mental Health, Mindful Parenting, and Parenting Practices.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Management of preoperative anxiety with non-pharmacological methods in pediatric patients in resource-limited settings: a literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- Mindful Parenting Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Integrative systemic and family therapy for social anxiety disorder: Manual and practice in a pilot randomized controlled trial (SOPHO-CBT/ST).Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Associations of Family Functioning and Social Support With Psychopathology in Children of Mentally Ill Parents: Multilevel Analyses From Different Rating Perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Group- versus Parent-Involvement CBT for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Treatment Specificity and Long-term Recovery Mediation.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Article
- Vicarious Improvement Among Parents Participating in Child-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety.Child & family behavior therapy · 2019Article
- Epidemiology and Impact of Health Care Provider-Diagnosed Anxiety and Depression Among US Children.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · 2018Article
- Parent-youth informant disagreement: Implications for youth anxiety treatment.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2018Article
- Parental Outcomes Following Participation in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
- Parental anxiety as a predictor of medication and CBT response for anxious youth.Child psychiatry and human development · 2015Article
- Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on improving anxiety symptoms, behavioral problems and parenting stress in Taiwanese children with anxiety disorders and their mothers.Child psychiatry and human development · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo examine (1) changes in parent (global psychological distress, trait anxiety) and family (dysfunction, burden) functioning following 12 weeks of child-focused anxiety treatment, and (2) whether changes in these parent and family factors were associated with child's treatment condition and response.
methodsParticipants were 488 youth ages 7-17 years (50% female; mean age 10.7 years) who met DSM-IV-TR criteria for social phobia, separation anxiety, and/or generalized anxiety disorder, and their parents. Youth were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of "Coping Cat" individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), medication management with sertraline (SRT), their combination (COMB), or medication management with pill placebo (PBO) within the multisite Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS). At pre- and posttreatment, parents completed measures of trait anxiety, psychological distress, family functioning, and burden of child illness; children completed a measure of family functioning. Blinded independent evaluators rated child's response to treatment using the Clinical Global Impression-Improvement Scale at posttreatment.
resultsAnalyses of covariance revealed that parental psychological distress and trait anxiety, and parent-reported family dysfunction improved only for parents of children who were rated as treatment responders, and these changes were unrelated to treatment condition. Family burden and child-reported family dysfunction improved significantly from pre- to posttreatment regardless of treatment condition or response.
conclusionsFindings suggest that child-focused anxiety treatments, regardless of intervention condition, can result in improvements in nontargeted parent symptoms and family functioning particularly when children respond successfully to the treatment.
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