Personalized Assessment of Anxiety and Avoidance in Children and Their Parents-Development and Evaluation of the Anxiety and Avoidance Scale for Children.
anxiety
avoidance
children
personalized assessment
questionnaires
Journal
Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
30
04
2021
accepted:
27
10
2021
entrez:
6
12
2021
pubmed:
7
12
2021
medline:
7
12
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In treating childhood anxiety disorders, therapists use highly individualized anxiety hierarchies to assess anxiety-eliciting situations and to personalize treatment. In contrast, psychometric assessment of anxiety symptoms in children usually consists of standardized questionnaires, assessing either total anxiety or disorder-specific symptom scores, prioritizing comparability over individual information. To account for interindividual differences, the Anxiety and Avoidance Scale for Children (AVAC) was developed, following a precise, personalized, assessment approach. In responding to the questionnaire, children and parents identify the most anxiety-eliciting situations before starting treatment, and rate them for anxiety and avoidance. Ratings are repeated over the course of treatment. The aim of this study is to introduce the new questionnaire and present first data on psychometric properties. The AVAC was administered to 389 children with separation anxiety disorder (
Identifiants
pubmed: 34867587
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703784
pmc: PMC8635988
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
703784Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Lippert, Sommer, Flasinski, Pflug, Rölver, Christiansen, In-Albon, Knappe, Romanos, Tuschen-Caffier and Schneider.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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