ArticleJournal of anxiety disorders2017
Cognitive bias modification of interpretation in children with social anxiety disorder.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Insecure Attachment Orientation in Adults and Children and Negative Attribution Bias: A Meta-Analysis.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Is interpretation bias for threat content specific to youth anxiety symptoms/diagnoses? A systematic review and meta-analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Social stress task with parental support or self-instruction decreases negative cognitions in children with social anxiety disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Implication of Social Rejection in Cognitive Bias Modification Interpretation Training in Adolescents With Eating Disorders.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Review
- Cognitive bias modification of interpretations for anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- An Emotional Bias Modification for Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Co-design Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Inclusiveness of cognitive bias modification research toward children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2022Review
- Neural correlates of cognitive bias modification for interpretation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Negative (or a lack of positive) interpretation of ambiguous social situations has been hypothesised to maintain social anxiety disorder in children, yet there is currently limited evidence to support this. Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretation (CBM-I) provides a means to explore the causal influence of interpretation bias on social anxiety disorder, and has been associated with a reduction in social anxiety symptoms in adults. Seven to twelve year old children with a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder completed CBM-I training, adapted from materials designed for socially anxious children in the community, or no training. Effects on interpretation bias and social anxiety were assessed. The adapted CBM-I training was not associated with significant changes in benign or negative interpretation. Unsurprisingly given the lack of successful interpretation training, there were no significant changes in child or parent reported social anxiety symptoms, clinician-rated severity or diagnoses and change in interpretation was not significantly associated with change in social anxiety. These findings contrast with some studies with community populations although it is possible that more intensive CBM-I training is required to fully test this hypothesis among clinical groups.
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