Preventing Anxiety in the Children of Anxious Parents

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24646
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Fiona Challacombe discusses her co-authored CAMH journal paper ‘Preventing anxiety in the children of anxious parents – feasibility of a brief, online, group intervention for parents of one- to three-year-olds’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12596).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• What is known about anxiety, how it aggregates in families, and how it is transmitted between generations.
• Why it is important to tackle childhood anxiety and the typical trajectory for children who are anxious and do not receive help.
• Insight into the adapted online group intervention on parenting skills for anxious parents.
• Implications of the paper’s findings for child and adolescent mental health professionals and policymakers.
• Tips for anxious parents.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.