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What about me? Siblings of children with an anxiety disorder
- Authors:
- DIA David A., HARRINGTON Donna
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research, 30(3), September 2006, pp.183-188.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article describes an exploratory American study aimed at examining the psychosocial functioning (that is, internalizing and externalizing behaviours) of children who have a sibling with an anxiety disorder. It was expected to find some of the sibling children suffering from an anxiety disorder because anxiety disorders tend to run in families. On the basis of the limited research available, gender, anxious child's diagnosis, length of treatment, inference in the family functioning, and parental history of mental health diagnosis were examined. More than half of the siblings without a mental health diagnosis had at least one elevated scale score suggesting the need for further assessment and possible treatment.