Trial reportJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2017
Therapist-Reported Features of Exposure Tasks That Predict Differential Treatment Outcomes for Youth With Anxiety.
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- Parenting as a Moderator of the Relation Between Child Inhibited Temperament and Anxiety in Western Contexts: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled 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
- Caregiver Satisfaction with Anxiety Treatment for Autistic Youth: A Mixed Methods Examination.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Trial
- Homework adherence in exposure-based CBT for youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Clinical outcomes and predictors across treatment.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Trial
- Virtual Reality Exposure-Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT + VRE) vs. CBT With Imaginal Exposure (CBT + IE) for Adolescent Patients Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder Symptoms: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Depression and anxiety · 2026Trial
- A comparison of virtual reality and verbal imaginal exposure for childhood anxiety disorders.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2025Trial
- Using session recordings to understand the content of community-based treatment for childhood anxiety disorders and response to technology-based training.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Trial
- Using Technology to Promote Therapist Use of Exposure Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Pilot Study.Behavior therapy · 2022Trial
- A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) study of medication and CBT sequencing in the treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2021Trial
- Brief Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Anxiety and Depression in Primary Care: A Follow-up.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2020Trial
- How anxious is too anxious? State and trait physiological arousal predict anxious youth's treatment response to brief cognitive behavioral therapy.BMC psychology · 2020Trial
- 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
- Exposure Therapy for Youth Anxiety: A Qualitative Examination of Caregivers' Impressions.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Therapeutic Homework and Treatment Outcomes in Youth Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Internalizing Disorders: A Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
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- Connectivity between the central executive and salience networks normalizes with exposure-focused CBT in pediatric anxiety.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectiveExposure tasks are recognized widely as a key component of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for child and adolescent anxiety. However, little research has examined specific exposure characteristics that predict outcomes for youth with anxiety and that may guide its application in therapy.
methodThis study draws on a sample of 279 children and adolescents (48.4% male; 79.6% white) with a principal anxiety disorder who received 14 sessions of CBT, either alone or in combination with medication, through the Child/adolescent Anxiety Multimodal treatment Study (CAMS). The present study examines therapist-reported quantity, difficulty level, compliance, and mastery of exposure tasks as they related to CBT response (i.e., Clinical Global Impressions-Improvement ratings). Secondary treatment outcomes included reduction in anxiety symptom severity on the Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale, global impairment measured via the Children's Global Assessment Scale, and parent-report of anxiety-specific functional impairment on the Child Anxiety Impairment Scale.
resultsRegression analyses indicated a dose-response relationship between therapist-reported quantity of exposure and independent evaluations of treatment outcome, with more time devoted to exposure linked to better outcomes. Similarly, greater time spent on more difficult (rather than mild or moderate) exposure tasks predicted better outcomes, as did therapist ratings of child compliance and mastery.
conclusionThe present findings highlight the importance of challenging children and adolescents with difficult exposure tasks and of collaborating to ensure compliance and mastery.
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