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Anxiety Disorders in Children

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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

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The concept of anxiety is critical to all theories of psychopathology, whether pertaining to children or adults. The theories differ in their postulates as to the origins of anxiety, the nature of the coping mechanisms against anxiety, and the concrete and manifest consequences of anxiety, but there is no psychological model of mental function that does not integrate it into its structure. In spite of the long history of the concept, anxiety disorders are not well understood. There has been remarkably little attempt made to refine them, but it is readily apparent, even to the untutored, that anxiety takes various forms (Klein, 1976).

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