2024
Parent Psychological Control and Youth Social Anxiety: Examining Attention Control and its Components as Moderators
Falcone M, Rey Y, Chong L, Marin C, Lebowitz E, Silverman W, Pettit J. Parent Psychological Control and Youth Social Anxiety: Examining Attention Control and its Components as Moderators. Cognitive Therapy And Research 2024, 1-9. DOI: 10.1007/s10608-024-10538-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchParental psychological controlYouth social anxietySocial anxietyPsychological controlAttentional controlAnxiety disorders specialty clinicHigh social anxietyTreatment developmentAnxietyClinical implicationsYouth attentionSpecialty clinicsYouthParentsModeratelyQuestionnaire dataEmpirical researchAttentionAssociationMethodsParticipantsControlImplicationsFamily Accommodation in Anxious Irritable and Anxious Nonirritable Youth
Budagzad-Jacobson R, Musicaro R, Marin C, Silverman W, Lebowitz E. Family Accommodation in Anxious Irritable and Anxious Nonirritable Youth. Behavior Therapy 2024, 55: 913-921. PMID: 39174269, PMCID: PMC11341947, DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2024.03.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFamily accommodationIrritable youthYouth anxietyParent ratingsCo-occurrence of anxietyLevels of irritabilityInfluence of irritabilityClinic-referredAnxiety disordersDiagnostic InterviewChild anxietyYouth ratingsAnxietyAccommodation behaviorAnxiety levelsTreatment targetModerating effectIrritability levelsYouthCo-occurrenceParentsIrritationDisordersFindingsAssociation
2023
Maternal FGF2 levels associated with child anxiety and depression symptoms through child FGF2 levels
Lebowitz E, Marin C, Orbach M, Salmaso N, Vaccarino F, Silverman W. Maternal FGF2 levels associated with child anxiety and depression symptoms through child FGF2 levels. Journal Of Affective Disorders 2023, 326: 193-197. PMID: 36717031, PMCID: PMC10104478, DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.090.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFGF2 levelsDepressive symptomsDepression symptomsChild anxietySymptoms of anxietyRatings of anxietyGrowth factor 2Maternal anxietySymptomsDepressed childrenDepressionChild depressionMothersChildrenFactor 2Self-report ratingsAnxietyIntergenerational pathwaysNon-referred childrenRange of anxietyFGF2AssociationLevelsMaternal
2018
The Associations of Parents’ and Children’s Anxiety Sensitivity with Child Anxiety and Somatic-Hypochondriac Symptoms
Coppola G, Foschino Barbaro M, Curci A, Simeone M, Costantini A, Goffredo M, Latrofa A, Di Liso D, Silverman W. The Associations of Parents’ and Children’s Anxiety Sensitivity with Child Anxiety and Somatic-Hypochondriac Symptoms. Child & Youth Care Forum 2018, 47: 845-861. DOI: 10.1007/s10566-018-9464-z.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2016
Genome-wide association study of response to cognitive–behavioural therapy in children with anxiety disorders
Coleman JR, Lester KJ, Keers R, Roberts S, Curtis C, Arendt K, Bögels S, Cooper P, Creswell C, Dalgleish T, Hartman CA, Heiervang ER, Hötzel K, Hudson JL, In-Albon T, Lavallee K, Lyneham HJ, Marin CE, Meiser-Stedman R, Morris T, Nauta MH, Rapee RM, Schneider S, Schneider SC, Silverman WK, Thastum M, Thirlwall K, Waite P, Wergeland GJ, Breen G, Eley TC. Genome-wide association study of response to cognitive–behavioural therapy in children with anxiety disorders. The British Journal Of Psychiatry 2016, 209: 236-243. PMID: 26989097, PMCID: PMC5007453, DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.115.168229.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNon-replication of the association between 5HTTLPR and response to psychological therapy for child anxiety disorders
Lester KJ, Roberts S, Keers R, Coleman JR, Breen G, Wong CC, Xu X, Arendt K, Blatter-Meunier J, Bögels S, Cooper P, Creswell C, Heiervang ER, Herren C, Hogendoorn SM, Hudson JL, Krause K, Lyneham HJ, McKinnon A, Morris T, Nauta MH, Rapee RM, Rey Y, Schneider S, Schneider SC, Silverman WK, Smith P, Thastum M, Thirlwall K, Waite P, Wergeland GJ, Eley TC. Non-replication of the association between 5HTTLPR and response to psychological therapy for child anxiety disorders. The British Journal Of Psychiatry 2016, 208: 182-188. PMID: 26294368, PMCID: PMC4837384, DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.154997.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCognitive behavioral therapyCBT outcomeChild anxietyAnxiety disordersChild anxiety disordersMore positive outcomesShort-allele homozygotesPositive treatment outcomesPsychological therapiesDisorder outcomesPositive outcomesTreatment studiesHomogenous sampleMixed resultsAnxietyMixed effects modelsNon-significant effectTreatment outcomesCohort 2DisordersSignificant associationFuture studiesOutcomesAssociationTherapy