Correction to: Efficacy and acceptability of parent-only group cognitive behavioral intervention for treatment of anxiety disorder in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Parent-led cognitive behaviour therapy for child anxiety problems: overcoming challenges to increase access to effective treatment

“…We have previously argued that this approach has the potential to increase early access to CBT for children with anxiety disorders in a number of ways including reducing the perceived stigma and disruption to usual activities for children by not requiring them to attend regular clinical appointments, enabling families to manage the child’s difficulties ‘as a family’ (Reardon et al ., 2018), and by reducing the overall therapy time required (as parents can make use of a guided self-help type approach to implement strategies in their child’s day-to-day life) (Creswell et al ., 2019). A number of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate CBT delivered via parents for child anxiety disorders have now been conducted and recent meta-analyses have concluded that parent-only interventions (Jewell et al ., 2022) and parent-only CBT specifically (Yin e t al ., 2021) are effective treatments for child anxiety problems. We have provided an up-to-date list of key RCTs of this approach in Table 1.…”