ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2021
Distinguishing selective mutism and social anxiety in children: a multi-method study.
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- Long-term outcomes of selective mutism: a systematic literature review.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Silent Stress: Psychophysiological Arousal During Verbal and Nonverbal Tasks in Children with Selective Mutism.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- What Can We Learn from the Previous Research on the Symptoms of Selective Mutism? A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- An Updated Characterization of Childhood Selective Mutism: Exploring Clinical Features, Treatment Utilization, and School Services.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Interactions between parenting styles, child anxiety, and oppositionality in selective mutism.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Symptoms of Selective Mutism in Middle Childhood: Psychopathological and Temperament Correlates in Non-clinical and Clinically Referred 6- to 12-year-old Children.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Diagnosing selective mutism: a critical review of measures for clinical practice and research.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Review
- Childhood inhibition predicts adolescent social anxiety: Findings from a longitudinal twin study.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Silence and related symptoms in children and adolescents: a network approach to selective mutism.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the failure to speak: a comparison between children with selective mutism and social anxiety disorder on autonomic arousal.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- Current Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management of Selective Mutism in Children.Psychology research and behavior management · 2021Review
- Symptoms of Selective Mutism in Non-clinical 3- to 6-Year-Old Children: Relations With Social Anxiety, Autistic Features, and Behavioral Inhibition.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Heterogeneity of Selective Mutism: A Primer for a More Refined Approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a child fails to speak in some situations (e.g., school) despite the ability to speak in other situations (e.g., home). Some work has conceptualized SM as a variant of social anxiety disorder (SAD) characterized by higher levels of social anxiety. Here, we empirically tested this hypothesis to see whether there were differences in social anxiety (SA) between SM and SAD across behavioral, psychophysiological, self-, parent-, and teacher-report measures. Participants included 158 children (M
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