Affiliation:
1. University of Barcelona
2. ²Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Abstract
Abstract
Aim: Anxiety disorders (AD) are estimated in a 6’5% worldwide childhood and adolescence and produce a negative impact over functioning and life quality. Individual and group Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT) have demonstrated their short and long-term efficacy. Cool Kids (CK) is a 10-session CBT-based group program to be administered to 7-17 aged participants with AD and their parents. CK has demonstrated its efficacy compared to control groups. Our aim was to analyze the effectiveness of CK in a clinical cohort of Spanish children and teens with AD.
Methods: CK was offered to 57 patients with AD and caregivers attended in the Hospital Clínic, Barcelona. The Spence Children Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and the Child Anxiety Life Interference Scale (CALIS), children and parent versions, were administered at pre-treatment and post-treatment.
Results: The results in all global registered measures showed a reduction of the symptoms and their interference in daily functioning, as well as a greater improvement in those participants with more completed sessions.
Conclusions: These results have showed that CK has benefits in reducing the anxiety severity and its interference over individual and family functioning in a Spanish clinical cohort.
Publisher
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