Other 'What Works' Topics
Emotional and Mental Health
By Jonathan F. Zaff, Ph.D., Julia Calkins, Lisa J. Bridges, Ph.D., and Nancy Geyelin Margie
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Self-Esteem Perceived Competence Coping Depression Anxiety Eating Disorders ADHD
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Conduct Disorder Drug and Alcohol Abuse Multiple Internalizing and Externalizing Problems        
Emotional & Mental Health

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies
Anxiety

- At the individual level, cognitive-behavioral therapy

- At the individual level, serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's)

 

- At the individual level, systematic desensitization (for phobias).

- Prevention programs targeted to children/adolescents who were inhibited as toddlers (as that is an early predictor of social anxiety).

- Treating negative affectivity to prevent the development of anxiety disorders (and depression).

- Fostering family environments that allow the development of children's/adolescents' independence, rather than being characterized by high levels of parental control.


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