Anxiety in children, Phobias in children 

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary guidebook is designed for the mental health practitioner seeking to utilize proven and effective interventions with children and adolescents suffering from significant anxiety and phobic disorders. Each chapter is co-authored by a clinical child psychologist and a child psychiatrist, framing the volume's unique and balanced perspective. In addition, each chapter presents state-of-the-art assessment and treatment strategies for a panoply of phobic and anxiety disorders, including both psychosocial and pharmacological interventions. Moreover, the volume addresses important conceptual, epidemiological, and ethical issues in working with children and adolescents. All in all, this guide will help address the wide chasm between clinical research and clinical practice, uniting the forces intrinsic to child psychiatry and clinical child psychology. Editorial Reviews Review ... this will be a key book for specialists, and very useful for reference in primary care. Primary Care Psychiatry, Vol 9, No 4 About the Author Tracy L. Morris, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at West Virginia University, where she currently serves as Associate Chair of the department and Coordinator of the child clinical psychology doctoral program. She received a BS and an MS degree in psychology from Pittsburg State University (Kansas) and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Morris completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina, specializing in child clinical psychology. Her primary research focus is on the developmental psychopathology of anxiety disorders. John S. March, MD, MPH, is Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. He received a BA from the University of California at Riverside and an MS in molecular biology from the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained an MD-MPH (epidemiology) from the UCLA School of Medicine, where he later completed a residency in Family Practice. Following several years as a family practitioner in rural Montana, Dr. March trained in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin/n-/Madison. He has extensive experience developing and testing treatments for pediatric mental disorders and has published widely on obsessive/n-/compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and pediatric psychopharmacology.