Improving interventions for anxious youth: developing understanding and treatment of parents' cognitions and behaviours

认知行为疗法（CBT）是一种在治疗许多心理障碍方面取得巨大成功的治疗方法。它特别侧重于帮助患者改变他们的思维方式和行为，以帮助他们克服痛苦。近年来，这种方法被引入到儿童工作中，取得了不同程度的成功。对结果好坏参半的一种解释可能与儿童看护人参与治疗的方式有关。一个很好的例子是儿童焦虑症的治疗，在不同的研究中，治疗结果差异很大（39-84%的治疗后缓解）。近年来，父母的思维方式和行为已被确定可能导致青少年情绪问题的发展。基于对临床和非临床人群的一系列实验，该研究旨在确定临床焦虑儿童的父母所经历的关键思维方式，并研究这些思维方式如何影响父母的行为，从而影响孩子的感受和行为。这项研究有可能对临床实践的发展产生重大影响，为CBT成功适应年轻人提供理解和治疗技术。

Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) is a treatment approach that has achieved tremendous success in the treatment of many psychological disorders. It specifically focuses on helping patients to change their thinking styles and behaviours to help them to overcome distress. In recent years the approach has been imported to work with children, with varying degrees of success. One explanation for the mixed results is likely to relate to how children‘s caregivers are involved in the treatment. A good example of this is the treatment of child anxiety, in which treatment outcomes have varied enormously across studies (39-84% remitted following treatment). In recent years parental thinking styles and behaviours have been identified that may contribute to the development of emotional problems in young people. Based on a series of experiments with clinical and non-clinical groups of people, the proposed research aims to identify key thinking styles experienced by parents of clinically anxious children and examine how these thinking styles influence parents‘ behaviours, and consequently how children feel and behave. This research has the potential to have a significant impact on the development of clinical practice by providing understanding and therapeutic techniques for the successful adaptation of CBT to young populations.