Affective and cognitive processes and the development and maintenance of anxiety and its disorders.

Authors
Publication date 2001
Host editors
  • W.K. Silverman
  • P.D.A. Treffers
Book title Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: Research, assessment and intervention.
ISBN
  • 0521789664
  • 9780521789660
Pages (from-to) 23-44
Publisher New York, NY: Cambridge University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Presents a selective review of research related to cognitive hypotheses and models of childhood anxiety. The cognitive behavioral approach and the information processing approach to childhood anxiety are explored. Cognitive developmental aspects of anxiety-related cognition, the typical patterns of cognition in anxious children, and the development of an anxious cognitive style are discussed.
Document type Chapter
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