ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2015
Components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Related to Outcome in Childhood Anxiety Disorders.
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- A Systematic Review of Parental Involvement in Digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Interventions for Child Anxiety.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Determinants of Exposure Therapy Implementation in Clinical Practice for the Treatment of Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- What Is the Added Benefit of Combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in Youth with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Meta-Analysis.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- 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
- Optimising Exposure for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety, OCD and PTSD: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- A Meta-analysis to Guide the Enhancement of CBT for Childhood Anxiety: Exposure Over Anxiety Management.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Pooled it
- Behavioral Practice and Homework Completion as Predictors of Outcome in a Transdiagnostic Brief Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth.Behavior therapy · 2026Trial
- A comparison of virtual reality and verbal imaginal exposure for childhood anxiety disorders.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2025Trial
- The acceptability of a therapist-assisted internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy program for the treatment of anxiety disorders in adolescents: a qualitative study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Using Technology to Promote Therapist Use of Exposure Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Pilot Study.Behavior therapy · 2022Trial
- Irritability in Children and Adolescents With OCD.Behavior therapy · 2021Trial
- The Impact of Treatment Expectations on Exposure Process and Treatment Outcome in Childhood Anxiety Disorders.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Trial
- Measuring fear change within exposures: Functionally-defined habituation predicts outcome in three randomized controlled trials for pediatric OCD.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Trial
- Secondary outcomes from the pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder treatment study II.Journal of psychiatric research · 2017Trial
- Training Community Clinicians in Implementing CBT-ERP for Youth with OCD: A Pilot Study in Australian Community Mental Health Services.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: Baseline Prevalence, Comorbidity, and Implications in a Clinically Anxious Pediatric Sample.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- A Team-Based Partner-Driven Model for Delivering Outpatient Exposure Treatment for Pediatric Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Exposure-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders: Superiority Over Relaxation-Based Comparator and Predictors of Response.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Medicinal Plants for Child Mental Health: Clinical Insights, Active Compounds, and Perspectives for Rational Use.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
The present article uses meta-analysis to examine treatment components related to outcome within 35 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for childhood anxiety disorders (CADs) and eight RCTs for childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Examination of the RCTs of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for CADs suggested that adding relaxation and delaying exposures until after the introduction of other anxiety management strategies does not increase the efficacy of exposure-based treatment. In addition, compared to the large effect size (ES) associated with exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD (k = 9, mean ES = 1.93), the effect size associated with CBT for CADs (k = 44, mean ES = 0.89) did not differentiate from attention placebo (k = 11, mean ES = 0.55), although it was more effective than waitlist control (k = 24, mean ES = 0.22). Instructively, ERP for OCD involved more exposure initiated earlier and less relaxation than CBT for CADs. In addition, RCTs of ERP were more likely to use clinician-administered measures as opposed to self-report and to be conducted in clinical versus recruited samples. These results suggest that dismantling studies using a gold-standard clinician-rated outcome measure to compare the value of adding anxiety management strategies to exposure will be necessary to increase the efficacy of CBT for CADs to levels achieved by ERP for OCD.
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