Depression and anxiety often emerge for the first time during youth. The school environment
provides an ideal context to deliver prevention programs, with potential to offset the�…

Depression and anxiety are often first experienced during childhood and adolescence, and
interest in the prevention of these disorders is growing. The focus of this review was to�…

OBJECTIVE: To develop a reliable and valid child and parent self-report instrument to
screen children with anxiety disorders. METHOD: An 85-item questionnaire was�…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the history, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the
Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC). METHOD: In two separate school�…

The Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) is a child self-report measure designed to
evaluate symptoms relating to separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive�…

The practical significance of assessing disorders of emotion in children is well documented,
yet few scales exist that possess conceptual if not empirical relevance to dimensions of DSM�…

In this study a psychosocial treatment for 47 Ss (aged 9–13 years) with anxiety disorders
was investigated. A 16-session cognitive–behavioral treatment was compared with a wait�…

Guided by Grych and Fincham's theoretical framework for investigating the relation between
interparental conflict and child adjustment, a questionnaire was developed to assess�…

Since its development, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has been widely
used in both research and practice. The SDQ screens for positive and negative�…

A child version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; D. Watson et al, see
record 1988-31508-001), the PANAS-C, was developed using students in Grades 4–8 (N�…