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Humans have an inherent capacity to react to threat stimuli with fear and anxiety. For the majority of children and adolescents, fears and anxieties are common, functional, and transitory. For this reason, both parents and other caregivers often correctly view childhood anxiety as a passing complaint. Unfortunately, epidemiological studies using self-report measures indicate that anxiety problems are the most common form of child and adolescent psychological problems. More tentative evidence indicates that these problems may, in their severest forms, be disabling and chronic and may have some continuity with adult anxiety problems (Keller, et al., 1992; Pfeiffer, Lipkins, Plutchik, & Mizruchi, 1988; cf. Last, Perrin, Hersen, & Kazdin, 1996).
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Dadds, M.R. (2002). Learning and Intimacy in the Families of Anxious Children. In: McMahon, R.J., Peters, R.D. (eds) The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1739-9_5
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