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Vulnerability factors for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.

Kathleen Ries Merikangas
- 01 Oct 2005 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 4, pp 649-679
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The major risk factors for the development of anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence are reviewed and a substantial proportion of youth with anxiety continues to manifest lifelong problems with anxiety and other mental disorders.
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This article is published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.The article was published on 2005-10-01. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anxiety & Population.

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Why Do Children from Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Families Suffer from Poor Health When They Reach Adulthood? A Life-Course Study

TL;DR: Results showed that low childhood SES was associated with an increased risk of substance dependence and poor physical health in adulthood, suggesting that the processes mediating the link between childhood low SES and adult poor health are multifactorial.
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The developmental course of anxiety symptoms during adolescence: the TRAILS study

TL;DR: This is the first study to separate the development of anxiety symptoms from that of symptoms of depression, and shows that, in the general population, anxiety symptoms first decrease during early adolescence, and subsequently increase from middle to late adolescence.
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Specificity of putative psychosocial risk factors for psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.

TL;DR: The findings support the need to define risk factors and disorders narrowly, to control comorbidity and other risk factors, and to consider developmental patterns of specificity by sex.
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Social anxiety disorder: a review of environmental risk factors.

TL;DR: A recent review and critique of proposed environmental risk factors for SAD, focusing on traditional as well as some understudied and overlooked environmental risk Factors: parenting and family environment, adverse life events, cultural and societal factors, and gender roles are provided.
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Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

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Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness.

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