Understanding cognitive and behavioural mechanisms of Generalised Anxiety Disorder in adolescents

在这个项目的过程中，我们的目标是进一步了解认知和行为机制，这些机制是青少年广泛性焦虑症（GAD）维持的基础。我们将探索成人模型中的特征过程（例如，对不确定性的不容忍、认知回避和对担忧的积极信念），除了可能特定于青少年的因素（例如，家庭和家庭因素）。此外，我们将评估适应不良的完美主义和GAD的年轻人之间的潜在关系，在成人和非临床青少年样本中的作用，这transdiagnosis过程的证据。该项目将利用一系列方法（定性和定量），并将涉及与有生活经验的青少年（包括来自NeurOx青年咨询小组的青少年）的接触。我们的研究结果将为青少年GAD认知模型的发展提供信息，并在此基础上，我们将在多个基线病例系列中共同设计和评估简短心理干预的疗效。该项目福尔斯属于人口和公共卫生科学技能优先项目。

Over the course of this project, we aim to further our understanding of the cognitive and behavioural mechanisms that underly the maintenance of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in adolescents. We will explore the processes that feature in adult models (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty, cognitive avoidance, and positive beliefs about worry), in addition to factors that may be specific to adolescents (e.g., peer and family factors). Furthermore, we will assess the potential relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and GAD in young people, given evidence for the role of this transdiagnostic process in adult and non-clinical adolescent samples. The project will make use of a range of methodologies (qualitative and quantitative) and will involve engagement with adolescents with lived experience (including those from the NeurOx Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG)). Our findings will inform the development of a cognitive model of GAD in adolescence and, building upon this, we will co-design and assess the efficacy of a brief psychological intervention in a multiple baseline case series. This project falls under the Population and public health sciences skills priority.