Specific and social fears in children and adolescents: separating normative fears from problem indicators and phobias

Objective: To distinguish normative fears from problematic fears and phobias. Methods: We investigated 2,512 children and adolescents from a large community school-based study, the High Risk Study for Psychiatric Disorders. Parent reports of 18 fears and psychiatric diagnosis were investigated. We...

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Main Authors: Paola P. Laporte, Pedro M. Pan, Mauricio S. Hoffmann, Lauren S. Wakschlag, Luis A. Rohde, Euripedes C. Miguel, Daniel S. Pine, Gisele G. Manfro, Giovanni A. Salum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2017-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462017000200118&lng=en&tlng=en