title: Anxiety Disorders and the Family: How families affect psychiatric disorders.
abstract: Family functioning and anxiety disorders, the most prevalent forms of psychiatric disorder, influence one another. The empirical literature on family studies of anxiety disorder (ie, aggregration of disorders within families), on parent-child relationships and anxiety disorders, and on marriage and anxiety disorders is reviewed. Finally, the challenges for patients and their families of post-traumatic stress disorder are discussed.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hunsley