title: Cognitive-behavioral treatment versus an active control for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders: a randomized trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The current trial examined whether a specific cognitive-behavioral treatment package was more efficacious in treating childhood anxiety disorders than a nonspecific support package.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred twelve children (aged 7-16 years) with a principal anxiety disorder were randomly allocated to either a group cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) program or a control condition (group support and attention [GSA]).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, results showed that CBT was significantly more efficacious compared with the GSA condition: 68.6% of children in the CBT condition did not meet diagnostic criteria for their principal anxiety diagnosis at 6-month follow-up compared with 45.5% of the children in the GSA condition. The results of the child- and parent-completed measures indicated that, although mothers of CBT children reported significantly greater treatment gains than mothers of GSA children, children reported similar improvements across conditions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Specific delivery of cognitive-behavioral skills is more efficacious in the treatment of childhood anxiety than a treatment that includes only nonspecific therapy factors.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: Ronald M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rapee
authors.forename: Charise
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Deveney
authors.forename: Carolyn A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Schniering
authors.forename: Heidi J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lyneham
authors.forename: Nataly
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bovopoulos