The revised version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED‐R): Treatment sensitivity in an early intervention trial for childhood anxiety disorders

Abstract

It can be concluded that the SCARED-R reliably taps treatment effects and thus should be regarded as a useful self-report index of childhood anxiety in clinical and research settings. Furthermore, the data support the notion that CBT should be generally regarded as an efficacious intervention for anxiety disordered children.

Psychotherapy of Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis

“…While earlier studies established the efficacy of individual therapy in treating child anxiety disorders, the results of a number of recent trials suggest that group treatment may be equally efficacious [38, 48]. In the present study, the mean effect sizes for group and individual therapy were comparable.…”

“…Most studies (77.8%) excluded children who were currently involved in psychosocial or psychopharmacological treatment. However, more recent studies [32,37,38,39] did include children who were on psychopharmacological medication, as long as they maintained a constant dosage on the same medication throughout the duration of the study.…”

“…A number of group treatment studies in our meta-analysis included family-focused interventions (n = 7), making it difficult to disentangle the effects of group therapy and family involvement. Though Muris et al [38] have recently demonstrated the similarity in outcomes of group and individual treatment without parental involvement in either condition, future research should continue to investigate this question while controlling the overlap of family-focused and group treatment settings.…”

Evaluating a cognitive behavioral therapy group program for anxious five to seven year old children: a pilot study

“…[6,18,19] Several studies have compared individual CBT to group CBT [20,21,22] in children older than 8 years of age with both individual and group therapies appearing effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders although in one study [21] socially anxious children responded better to individual treatment rather than group treatment. It is important to note, however, that whether individual or group CBT is a better treatment modality is a relatively underresearched area and results to date are far from conclusive.…”

The French Version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders-Revised (Scared-R): Factor Structure, Convergent and Divergent Validity in a Sample of Teenagers

“…The concurrent validity was studied with the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (Muris et al, 1999c;2000b). The treatment sensitivity of the SCARED-R was established in anxious children (Muris, Merkelbach, Gadet, Moulsert & Tierney, 1999a;Muris, Merckelbach, Korver & Meesters, 2000a;Muris, Mayer, Bartelds, Tierney & Bogie, 2001). Finally, the discriminant validity of the SCARED-R was established in a clinical sample (Muris & Steerneman, 2001).…”