Parenting and Parental Anxiety and Depression as Predictors of Treatment Outcome for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Has the Role of Fathers Been Underestimated?

PurposeAnxiety disorders have a high prevalence in children. Those children with anxious symptoms are more likely to experience significant disruption in their lives. This disruption can interrupt or even stop a child from participating in a variety of typical childhood experiences. It is understood that genetic and environmental factors may cause this disorder. The purpose of this paper is to focus on environmental factors, namely, the mediating role of maladaptive schemas in mothers’ child-rearing and childhood anxiety disorders.Design/methodology/approachThis study used correlation-modeling to assess the analysis. The sample included 326 students (aged 9-12 years old) and their mothers. The parenting style (Baumrind, 1973), Early Maladaptive Schema (Rijkeboer and de Boo, 2010), and anxiety disorders (Muriset al., 2006) questionnaires were used in this study.FindingsThe results showed a relationship between parenting styles of mothers and childhood anxiety disorders, a significant correlation between childhood maladaptive schemas and childhood anxiety disorders, a relation between child-rearing styles and childhood maladaptive schemas, and finally a mediating role on childhood anxiety disorders and mothers’ child-rearing styles for some childhood maladaptive schemas.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the knowledge base of the importance of children’s mental health. The paper analyzes the relationship of mothers’ parenting styles and children’s anxiety. It also focuses on maladaptive schemas as a mediator and its relationship with childhood anxiety disorders.

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The Role of Disgust in Childhood Anxiety Disorders

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders ◽

10.1007/978-1-4419-7784-7_11 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 155-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Melanie W. Moretz ◽

Jon Rogove ◽

Dean McKay

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorders ◽

Childhood Anxiety ◽

Childhood Anxiety Disorders

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Parental Predictors of School Attendance Difficulties in Children Referred to an Anxiety Disorders Clinic

European Journal of Education and Psychology ◽

10.30552/ejep.v12i1.239 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 31 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carla E. Marin ◽

Tess Anderson ◽

Eli R. Lebowitz ◽

Wendy K. Silverman

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorders ◽

Psychological Control ◽

School Attendance ◽

Parental Depression ◽

Childhood Anxiety ◽

Parental Anxiety ◽

Parental Factors ◽

Family Accommodation ◽

Parental Psychological Control ◽

Childhood Anxiety Disorders

Difficulties with attending school are common in children referred to anxiety disorders clinics. Although parental factors have been posited as playing an important predictive role, little is known about which parental factors are associated with school attendance difficulties (SADs). We address this gap by examining family accommodation, parental psychological control, parental anxiety, and parental depression as possible predictors of SADs in children (N=343; ages 6 to 17 years, M=10.40 years, SD=2.93; 84% mothers; M=41.20 years, SD=5.49) who presented to a childhood anxiety disorders clinic. Forty-eight percent (n= 166) had SADs including not attending school, arriving to school late and/or leaving early, not staying in the classroom during school hours, or behavior problems associated with attending school (e.g. morning tantrums). Logistic regression analyses using child and parent ratings revealed that of the parental variables examined, family accommodation and parental depression were significant predictors of SADs after controlling for the effects of parental psychological control, parental anxiety, child age, child anxiety and child depression. The study’s findings suggest that high levels of family accommodation and high levels of parental depression increase the odds of SADs in anxious children.

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The Case for Involving the Family in the Treatment of Childhood Anxiety

Behaviour Change ◽

10.1017/s0813483900004691 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 203-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Vanessa E. Cobham

Keyword(s):

Treatment Outcome ◽

Anxiety Disorders ◽

Childhood Anxiety ◽

Anxious Child ◽

Her Family ◽

Childhood Anxiety Disorders ◽

Cognitive Behavioural ◽

The Family ◽

Combined Intervention ◽

Cognitive Behavioural Interventions

Anxiety disorders are among the most common forms of psychopathology reported by children and adolescents. Anxiety disorders in children have debilitating consequences, both for the child and his/her family. In addition, research indicates that, in many cases, these disorders follow a chronic and persistent course. The efficacy of child-focused cognitive-behavioural interventions in the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders has been well demonstrated by recent, well-controlled research. This treatment outcome literature is briefly reviewed. Most recently, however, interventions used in the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders have taken the form of combined interventions aimed both at the anxious child and his or her family. This paper reviews two related bodies of research in presenting a case for the involvement of families in the treatment of childhood anxiety. First, the etiological evidence implicating the families of anxious children in the development and/or maintenance of childhood anxiety is presented. Second, the treatment outcome studies that have empirically evaluated this type of combined intervention are reviewed.

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