The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety

ISBN: 9780195123630 出版年：2001 页码：527 Oxford University Press

Anxiety and fear are common in childhood and adolescence, with their focus typically reflecting important developmental themes and challenges (Muris & Field, 2011) that are largely consistent across cultures (Ollendick, Yang, King, Dong, & Akande, 1996). As such, anxiety is an adaptive emotion that prepares the individual to detect and deal with threats, thereby fostering survival (Marks & Nesse, 1994). However, high levels of anxiety have strong potential to interfere with development, raising risk for a wide range of maladaptive outcomes, including impaired interpersonal and academic functioning (Rapee, Schniering, & Hudson, 2009). Consequently, such problems have strong potential to initiate negative developmental cascades.