Do children panic?
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2019, Behaviour Research and TherapyCitation Excerpt :One of the intriguing distinguishing features of many mental disorders is their different associations with particular life stages. For example, panic disorder has long been seen as a disorder that is rarely seen in childhood and several early theories tried to explain this specificity (Nelles & Barlow, 1988). Yet the same consideration has been rare among other forms of psychopathology.
Pediatric anxiety disorders
2013, Asian Journal of PsychiatrySudden gains as a long-term predictor of treatment improvement among children in community mental health organizations
2013, Behaviour Research and TherapyCitation Excerpt :Perhaps young children do not have sufficient cognitive insight to detect weekly internalizing changes. Research has demonstrated that age is associated with increased understanding of mental illness (Fox, Buchanan-Barrow, & Barrett, 2010; Nelles & Barlow, 1988). In one study, younger children were less likely to be able to make an internal attribution of their anxiety-related physical symptoms than were older children (Muris, Mayer, Freher, Duncan, & van den Hout, 2010).
Listen to your heart beat and shiver! An experimental study of anxiety-related emotional reasoning in children
2010, Journal of Anxiety DisordersCitation Excerpt :Finally, the study relied on a sample of 9–13-year-old children. While there are indications that children of this age certainly understand anxiety-related physical symptoms (e.g., Mattis & Ollendick, 1997; Muris et al., 2007), there are also authors who have argued that pre-adolescent children still lack the cognitive skills to really display more advanced cognitive distortions such as emotional reasoning (see Nelles & Barlow, 1988). Note that this also nicely fits with the (clinical) observation that panic disorder (symptoms) become really manifest during adolescence (e.g., Ollendick et al., 2004).
Cognitive development and the interpretation of anxiety-related physical symptoms in 4-13-year-old non-clinical children
2008, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental PsychiatryTheory-of-mind, cognitive development, and children's interpretation of anxiety-related physical symptoms
2007, Behaviour Research and TherapyCitation Excerpt :However, it remains unclear whether such theories can be generalized to younger children. Some authors have suggested that panic disorder is less common at a young age, because children lack the cognitive ability to make the catastrophic misinterpretations of physical symptoms associated with panic (e.g., Nelles & Barlow, 1988). Although such reasoning makes sense, it is also true that few studies have actually made an attempt to examine young children's understanding and interpretation of anxiety-related physical symptoms.