Anxiety disorders are serious conditions that can negatively impact a person's overall functioning. This study will enroll mothers with anxiety disorders and their children to determine whether a brief family-based intervention will reduce childhood anxiety better than standard care. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the family-based prevention program or to evaluation only for 8 weeks. Participants in the prevention program will have weekly sessions with a therapist and will learn skills to help reduce anxiety. Self- and parent-reports, diagnostic interviews, a computerized memory task, and a videotaped parent-child interaction task will be used to assess participants. Assessments will be conducted at study start and one week after intervention completion (Week 9). Follow-up visits will be conducted at 6 and 12 months after intervention completion.
Inclusion Criteria: * Mothers with a current, primary anxiety disorder * 7-12 year old children without an anxiety disorder Exclusion Criteria: * Mothers that do not have a current, primary anxiety disorder * 7-12 year old children with an anxiety disorder * 7-12 year old children that are currently receiving treatment for anxiety that could interfere with the study
están designados en este estudio
de ser asignado al grupo placebo