Prevention of Childhood Anxiety Disorders in Offspring of Anxious Parents
Anxiety Disorders
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Anxiety Disorders focused on measuring Prevention, Childhood anxiety, Parent program
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- The parent suffers from exaggerated worry or anxiety
- The parent speaks and reads Swedish
- The child is 5-9 years old
- The child receives a clinicians assigned clinical severity rating (CSR) of 1 to 3 on anxiety disorders in ADIS-C (subclinical symptoms of anxiety)
Exclusion criteria:
- Current or recent parental alcohol or substance abuse
- The parent suffer from severe psychiatric conditions (e.g.current or recent psychotic or manic/hypomanic symptoms, severe depression or increased risk of suicide)
- Social conditions that would obstruct from participation (e.g.ongoing custody dispute, domestic violence, ongoing investigation of child neglect through social services)
- The child suffers from/is currently in treatment for an anxiety disorder or depression
- The child is currently undergoing a neuropsychological evaluation
- The child has no symptoms of anxiety at all (the child receives a clinicians assigned CSR of 0 on all anxiety disorders in the ADIS-C interview )
- The child meet criteria for an anxiety disorder (the child receives a clinicians assigned CSR of 4 or above on any anxiety disorder in ADIS-C interview )
Sites / Locations
- Karolinska Institutet
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Confident Parents - Brave Children
Self-help book
The Confident Parents - Brave Children (CPBT) is a group parent training targeted to anxious parents, delivered by a psychologist via video conference (the Zoom software solution). The CPBT will comprise six 120-minutes digital sessions. One month after the last group session, all parents will be offered to have an individual booster session with a psychologist over Zoom.
In the control group, participants will receive a parenting book, titled "What all parents ought to know". This is a self-help book for parents, partly based on the scientifically evaluated parent program "All Children in Focus".