School Based Prevention for Childhood Anxiety

School Based Prevention for Childhood Anxiety

This study was designed to conceptualize a school-based prevention program or childhood anxiety.

This is a project corresponding to a career development grant. The main goal of the proposed research was to identify potential barriers to implementing a school-based anxiety preventive intervention, identify strategies to overcome these barriers, and use this information to test a school-based indicated intervention for child anxiety.

Inclusion:

Borderline child anxiety levels based on the Spence Child Anxiety Scale

Exclusion:

Externalizing problems (based on teacher nominations) more severe than Spence Child Anxiety Scale borderline levels