Main description:

Anxiety in Preschool Children provides a comprehensive, integrated, and scientifically current resource for both clinicians and researchers who work with or encounter anxiety in preschool-aged children. With a focus on organizing and consolidating the most current research, this informative new volume offers an assortment of practical interventions and evidence-based strategies for assessment, treatment, and prevention that are tailored to preschool-aged children. This groundbreaking volume will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone working with this unique patient population, from parents to practitioners.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Epidemiology and Nosology of Preschool Anxiety Disorders

CHELSEY S. BARRIOS, KATHERINE A. LEPPERT, AND LEA R. DOUGHERTY

2 Preschool Anxiety: Risk and Protective Factors

NICHOLAS D. MIAN AND SARAH A.O. GRAY

3 Normative Fears in Preschool-Aged Children

LAUREN PHILLIPS, NATALIE GAMES, JENNIFER SCHEURICH,

PAULA BARRETT AND BRIAN FISAK

4 Assessment of Fear and Anxiety in Preschool Children:

Parent and Teacher Report

SUSAN H. SPENCE

5 Assessment of Fear and Anxiety in Preschool Children: Selfreport

and Observational Measures

PETER MURIS

6 The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Preschool-Aged

Children

PAULA BARRETT, NATALIE GAMES, BRIAN FISAK, PAUL STALLARD AND

LAUREN PHILLIPS

7 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Preschool-Aged Children

MARINA INIESTA-SEPULVEDA AND ERIC A. STORCH

8 Trauma and PTSD in Preschool-Aged Children

ANN-CHRISTIN HAAG, SHANA CELI AND MARKUS A. LANDOLT

9 Selective Mutism in Preschool-Aged Children

R. LINDSEY BERGMAN AND ARACELI GONZALEZ

10 Prevention of Anxiety in Preschool-Aged Children

BRIAN FISAK, LAUREN PERSAD, JULIA GALLEGOS AND PAULA BARRETT

11 Psychopharmacological Treatment of Anxiety in Preschool-Aged Children

ANUJA MEHTA, JASMINE REYES AND BRIAN FISAK

Concluding Remarks

PAULA BARRETT AND BRIAN FISAK

Index