Interesting article by Liz Szabo from today’s USA Today on a JAMA study….certainly relevant to our work….they demonstrate that intervention before problems arise is effective in children whose parents have anxiety disorders.
 
Researchers offered half of youngsters and their parents an eight-week course of “cognitive behavioral therapy.” In these hour-long sessions, parents learned how to recognize things they were doing that might make their children anxious — such as being overprotective or worrying out loud. Children also learned coping skills, according to the study, in the June issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, released Monday