Trial reportDepression and anxiety2021
Directional effects of parent and child anxiety 1 year following treatment of child anxiety, and the mediational role of parent psychological control.
Trial report in Depression and anxiety, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Anxiety Symptom Trajectories Predict Depression Symptom Trajectories up to Four Years After CBT for Youth Anxiety Disorders.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Trial
- Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Trial
- Examining the direction of association between attendance-related difficulties and maternal depression symptoms in two UK birth cohorts.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- The Kids FACE FEARS Pragmatic Randomized Trial of Therapist-Led vs Guided Internet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Anxiety: Rationale and Methods.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- The Challenges of Parenting a Child with Anxiety: Insights from a Qualitative Lived Experience Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Discrepancies in Parent-Child Perception of Parental Control and Associations with Children's Anxiety: The Buffering Effect of Parent-Child Closeness.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Age-dependent mechanisms of exercise in the treatment of depression: a comprehensive review of physiological and psychological pathways.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The legacy of harsh parenting: Enduring and sleeper effects on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing symptoms.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Transactional associations of child irritability and anxiety with parent psychological control in Taiwanese school-aged children.JCPP advances · 2023Article
- Do Parents Enhance Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Youth Anxiety? An Overview of Systematic Reviews Over Time.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Review
- Parent Accommodation Contemporaneously Mediates the Association Between Youth Irritability and Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcome.Behavior therapy · 2023Article
- Combining attachment-based family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to improve outcomes for adolescents with anxiety.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Masters of Media: A longitudinal study of parental media efficacy, media monitoring, and child problematic media use across early childhood in the United States.Journal of children and media · 2023Article
- Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- From parents to children and back again: Bidirectional processes in the transmission and development of depression and anxiety.Depression and anxiety · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe leveraged a recent efficacy trial to investigate directionality between parent anxiety and child anxiety at posttreatment and 12-month follow-up, and the potential role of parent psychological control as a mediator. We also explored child age and sex as moderators.
methodTwo-hundred and fifty-four children were randomized to individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or to one of two CBT arms with parent involvement. Parent anxiety was not a treatment target in any of the three arms.
resultsChild anxiety at posttreatment was associated with parent anxiety and psychological control at 12-month follow-up, providing evidence of child-to-parent directionality. Parent anxiety at posttreatment was associated indirectly with child anxiety at 12-month follow-up through associations with parent psychological control, providing evidence of parent-to-child directionality. At posttreatment, parent psychological control contemporaneously mediated the relation between parent and child anxiety. Neither child age nor sex moderated any association.
conclusionsFindings highlight the directional effects between child anxiety, parent anxiety, and psychological control from posttreatment to 12-month follow-up, even when parent anxiety is not a treatment target. Research and clinical implications are discussed, with an emphasis on enhancing durability following treatment effects.
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