Children generalized anxiety disorder

Numerous studies found that childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse also predisposes victims of such abuse to the development of depression in adulthood (e.g., McCauley et ah, 1997). The risk for depression increases with early onset and severity of the abuse as well as with the experience of multiple types of abuse. In addition, child abuse is related to an array of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder and PTSD (e.g., Kendler et ah, 2000). Other disorders related to childhood abuse include substance abuse, eating disorders, dissociation, and so-... 

Hoehn-Saric R, McLeod DR (1990) Generalized anxiety disorder in adulthood. In M Hersen, CG Last (eds) Handbook of Child and Adult Psychopathology A longitudinal perspective. Pergamon Press, New York, 247-260... 

In general, following guidelines established for the treatment of other child psychiatric disorders would seem to be the most prudent initial approach to the question of discontinuation, with the caveats listed above. In the author s experience, continuing treatment for at least 6 months to a year following successful treatment of a psychiatric syndrome (assuming that the symptoms or syndrome was not situational, such as anxiety prior to a procedure or a resolved delirium) would seem to be a reasonable starting point. 

In general, if a mother is stressed while pregnant, her child is substantially more likely to have emotional or cognitive problems, including an increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, and language delay—and these outcomes are apparently independent of any maternal postnatal depression and anxiety.47... 

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