ABSTRACT
As research in adult anxiety disorders has accelerated, more attention has now been directed toward anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence. Current knowledge about anxiety psychopathology in children that meets today's scientific standards is limited. Nevertheless, this chapter reviews accruing objective evidence for the three childhood anxiety disorders that have been the focus of psychiatric research for the past two decades: separation anxiety disorder, avoidant disorder, and overanxious disorder. This review concentrates primarily on studies of these three specific disorders, rather than on reports using more general classification terms, such as anxiety disorders.
