7. What we know about behavioral parenting interventions with anxiety
Although parenting has not historically played as major of a role in the treatment of anxiety, as in the treatment of disruptive behaviors, research in the past 16 years has increasingly examined the role of parenting interventions. Table 1 summarizes these studies.1 Four criteria were used for inclusion/exclusion of a study. First, children had to meet diagnostic criteria for a DSM anxiety disorder. Second, as our interest was in clinical samples, examination of change in diagnosis of anxiety from pre-assessment to post-assessment was required.2 Third, to qualify as a parenting intervention, more than two sessions had to include parents and parental involvement had to consist of more than receiving information about the child's progress. Fourth, a parent intervention or parent plus child intervention was compared to a child-focused intervention or a control (i.e., wait-list or education/attention/support) in a group design with random assignment to groups