Essau C A, Petermann F
Zentrum für Rehabilitationsforschung der Universität Bremen.
MMW Fortschr Med. 1999 Jul 8;141(27):32-5.
The article reviews the literature on anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Anxiety disorders represent one of the most common disorders in children and adolescents, with a life-time prevalence of about 10%. In most studies, significantly more females than males met the diagnosis of anxiety disorders. Some factors that have been commonly found to be associated with anxiety disorders include parental psychopathology, familial dysfunction, negative life events, and behavioral inhibition. Anxiety co-occurs frequently with other disorders; it has a chronic course and most of the anxiety cases are psychosocially impaired in various areas of life. The article ends by giving an overview of various types of intervention strategies commonly used to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders.
本文回顾了有关儿童和青少年焦虑症的文献。焦虑症是儿童和青少年中最常见的疾病之一，终生患病率约为10%。在大多数研究中，被诊断为焦虑症的女性明显多于男性。一些常见的与焦虑症相关的因素包括父母的精神病理学、家庭功能障碍、负面生活事件和行为抑制。焦虑症经常与其他疾病同时出现；它病程慢性，大多数焦虑症患者在生活的各个方面都存在社会心理功能受损的情况。文章最后概述了常用于治疗儿童和青少年焦虑症的各种干预策略。
