As the field continues to shift from traditional symptom-based concepts of pathology to a contemporary, dynamic paradigm, the Second Edition addresses such key topics pertinent to childhood anxiety as:

· Early childhood disorders, including failure to thrive and attachment disorders.

· Aggression, ADHD, and other disruptive conditions.

· Developmental models of depression, anxiety, self-injury/suicide, and OCD.

· Child maltreatment and trauma disorders.

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders, Second Edition of the handbook is a discipline-defining, forward-looking, essential resource for researchers, clinicians, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in such fields as developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, child and school psychology, educational psychology, and pediatrics.