How were the nonreferred children recruited

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"Treatment of Anxiety in Children: Parents Need Not Apply?"

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The positive effects of cognitive-behavioral treatment on children with anxiety disorders are well- documented. However, there are often many components to, or variations of, the cognitive-behavioral program, and trying to find the main ones "responsible" for the improvements seen in children is a goal of many investigators. Some researchers have suggested that parental involvement in the treatment program plays a significant role in terms of children's outcomes, but the findings to-date have been mixed. To aid in your understanding of whether parent training is valuable in terms of treating children's anxiety, access an article entitled "Parent involvement in the treatment of anxiety disorders in children: A meta-analysis" by Thulin and colleagues (2014). This article examines whether the bulk of studies in this area show that cognitive parent training has additional value over cognitive-behavioral therapy alone.

Questions:

(1) How were the nonreferred children recruited?

(2) What was the most common anxiety disorder of children in the studies?

(3) Describe the main treatment program used for parents and children.

(4) Was age related to treatment outcome?

(5) What is a metanalysis and how is this type of analysis helpful?

(6) What explanations did the authors give as to why there was no effect of parent training, and which explanation seemed most viable to you?

(7) After reading this article, discuss your thoughts as to whether you would include parent training as part of an anxiety treatment program if you had a limited budget and could afford to have more children in the program without the

Reference no: EM133521287

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