Investigation is designed to determine whether the gold standard for treating anxious youth is enhanced by teaching parents to become their anxious child's CBT coach. Children (7-17 years old) with either Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, or Separation Anxiety Disorder are treated with a combination of the Coping Cat Program and a parent-training intervention that is designed to teach the child's parents the same cognitive and behavioral skills that the child is learning and how to help their child to complete exposure activities. The research methods are parallel to those used in the CAMS study so that this data can be merged with that data set to evaluate the relative efficacy of the enhanced intervention.
Children between the ages of 7 and 17 years old who are primarily experiencing either Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder or Social Phobia and are not experiencing a cognitive or learning disability that would prevent them from validly completing the measures are eligible for participation in the study. Children who are experiencing another psychological disorder as their primary disorder would be excluded from the current investigation. Outcome measures include the ADIS for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (fourth edition)(DSM-IV( Child or Parent, Children's Global Improvement Scale (CGI-I), Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS), Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale (PARS), Negative Affect Self-Statements Questionnaire (NASSQ), Coping Questionnaire (CQ), Goal Attainment Scale (GAS), Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ), Multi-dimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED),Family Assessment Measure (third editions) (FAM-III Dyadic), Perception of Therapeutic Relationship (PTR), Satisfaction Questionnaire (SQ), Child Behavior Check List (CBCL), Family Burden Assessment Scale (BAS), Brief Symptom Index (BSI), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Brief Family Assessment Measure (third editions (Brief FAM-III).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
35
Standard CBT for treatment of anxiety disorders in youth is completed by the children while their primary caregiver receives training in the same cognitive behavioral skills, how to recognize when he or she is accommodating his or her child's anxiety, and how to create and implement exposure activities.
Texas Child Study Center
Austin, Texas, United States
RECRUITINGPediatric Anxiety Rating Scale measures change in severity of anxiety from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Interview measure of the severity of anxiety symptoms that is completed by the child and his or her primary caregiver.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children measures change in severity of anxiety from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of severity of anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders measures change in severity of anxiety and related co-morbid disorders from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of the severity of anxiety symptoms.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Clinical Global Severity and Improvement Scales measure change in severity of anxiety and co-morbid disorders from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assessment of initial severity of illness and extent of improvement over treatment and follow-ups.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Children's Global Assessment Scale measures change in severity of anxiety and co-morbid disorders from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assessment of the degree of overall functioning of the child participants.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Anxiety Disorders Schedule for DSM-IV: Child Version and Parent Version
Interview measure of the presence and severity of various anxiety disorders and common co-existing disorders.
Time frame: Baseline(One week prior to starting treatment)
Family Assessment Measure III, Dyadic Relationship Scale measures change in perceived family environment from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assess family relationships
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Child Behavior Checklist measures change in severity of internalizing and externalizing symptoms from the parent's perspective from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Broadband measure of child psychopathology
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Family Burden Assessment measures change in severity of the burden the child's anxiety disorder creates for the family from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of the impact on the family of the child's anxiety disorder.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Brief Symptom Inventory measures change in severity of parental psychopathology from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assess parental psychopathology
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
State Trait Anxiety Inventory measures change in severity of anxiety for parents from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
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Measures anxiety symptoms in parents.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Mood and Feelings Questionnaire measures change in severity of depressive symptoms from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of depressive symptoms in the child participants
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Goal Attainment Scale measures goal attainment from baseline to post-treatment and assess maintenance of goal attainment at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Therapist sets five goals for the child patient and then tracks progress over the course of treatment.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Coping Questionnaire measures change in coping skills from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assess for the presence of coping skills in the child participants.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Negative Affective Self-Statement Questionnaire measures change in negative cognitions from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of negative cognitions in the child participants.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Harm to Self and Others Interview measures change in suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation and self-harming behaviors from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assessment of suicidal, homicidal and self-harm behavior and ideation.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)