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Open AccessParents’ Perception of Risk in Play: Associations with Parent and Child Gender
Allowing children the opportunity to take risks in their play may provide learning experiences that benefit children’s health and well-being. Parents’ perception of risk in children’s play may affect their beh...
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Open AccessChild’s Play: Examining the Association Between Time Spent Playing and Child Mental Health
It is theorised that adventurous play offers learning opportunities that help to prevent mental health problems in children. In this study, data from two samples is used to examine associations between the tim...
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Open AccessMinimising Young Children’s Anxiety through Schools (MY-CATS): statistical analysis plan for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an online parent-led intervention compared with usual school practice for young children identified as at risk for anxiety disorders
The Minimising Young Children’s Anxiety through Schools (MY-CATS) trial is being conducted to determine whether an online evidence-based parent-guided cognitive behavioural therapy intervention in addition to ...
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Open AccessParent perceived barriers and facilitators of children’s adventurous play in Britain: a framework analysis
From a public health perspective there is growing interest in children’s play, including play involving risk and adventure, in relation to children’s physical and mental health. Regarding mental health, it is ...
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Open AccessDevelopment and evaluation of a new measure of children’s play: the Children’s Play Scale (CPS)
There is increasing recognition of the importance of children’s play from a public health perspective, given the links between play and children’s physical and mental health. The present research aimed to deve...
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Open AccessAdventurous Play as a Mechanism for Reducing Risk for Childhood Anxiety: A Conceptual Model
In this conceptual article, we draw upon the literature regarding cognitive and behavioural factors that underpin childhood anxiety to outline how a range of these risk markers might be targeted through advent...
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Early Childhood Predictors of Anxiety in Early Adolescence
This longitudinal study examined a multitude of early childhood predictors of anxiety symptoms and disorders over an 8-year period. The purpose of the study was to identify early life predictors of anxiety acr...
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Attention Bias to Emotional Faces Varies by IQ and Anxiety in Williams Syndrome
Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) often experience significant anxiety. A promising approach to anxiety intervention has emerged from cognitive studies of attention bias to threat. To investigate the uti...
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Erratum to: Shared Cognition in Childhood Anxiety: Interpretation Bias in Preschool Children and Their Parents
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Shared Cognition in Childhood Anxiety: Interpretation Bias in Preschool Children and Their Parents
Although interpretation bias has been associated with the development and/or maintenance of childhood anxiety, its origins remain unclear. The present study is the first to examine intergenerational transmissi...
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Child Anxiety and the Processing of Ambiguity
An association between interpretation of ambiguity and anxiety may exist in children, but findings have been equivocal. The present research utilized the Interpretation Generation Questionnaire for Children (I...
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Anxiety and Attentional Bias in Preschool-Aged Children: An Eyetracking Study
Extensive research has examined attentional bias for threat in anxious adults and school-aged children but it is unclear when this anxiety-related bias is first established. This study uses eyetracking technol...
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The Relationship Between Parent and Child Dysfunctional Beliefs About Sleep and Child Sleep
Cognitive theories emphasise the role of dysfunctional beliefs about sleep in the development and maintenance of sleep-related problems (SRPs). The present research examines how parents’ dysfunctional beliefs ...
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Temperament, Family Environment and Anxiety in Preschool Children
This research examines the relationship between behavioural inhibition (BI), family environment (overinvolved and negative parenting, parental anxiety and parent-child attachment) and anxiety in a sample of 20...
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Interpretation of Ambiguous Situations: Evidence for a Dissociation Between Social and Physical Threat in Williams Syndrome
Williams syndrome (WS) is associated with an unusual profile of anxiety, characterised by increased rates of non-social anxiety but not social anxiety (Dodd and Porter, J Ment Health Res Intellect Disabil 2(2)...
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Beyond Behaviour: Is Social Anxiety Low in Williams Syndrome?
Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) exhibit striking social behaviour that may be indicative of abnormally low social anxiety. The present research aimed to determine whether social anxiety is unusually lo...
