ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an in-depth review of the FELT etiological model for anxiety. The FELT model is designed specifically for use in clinical psychotherapy. Consequently, it defines etiological factors based on what can be practically addressed through biopsychosocial interventions. The FELT anxiety model is comprehensive and integrates insights from several different traditions. It uses a three-tier system of propagating factors (what amplifies risk for anxiety), manifest factors (what anxiety actually looks like), and temporal factors (how anxiety presents differently over time and in interaction with developmental stages). Anxiety is offered as the model condition from which this three-tier system was originally developed, but the structure of the model can be applied to other diagnoses as well. FELT therapists are encouraged to use this etiological model to create individualized case conceptualizations for each therapy client. The model thus guides areas of intervention for each child client.
