Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 12 , Pages 1384-1394 , December 2008

Child Versus Family Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Clinically Anxious Youth: An Efficacy and Partial Effectiveness Study

,Accepted 27 June 2008.

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 This study was financially supported by a grant from ZonMw, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, grant number 945-02-052. The data for this study were collected while the first and third authors worked at the University of Maastricht.Clinical trial registration information—Family-versus child-alone CBT for children with anxiety disorders. URL: http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=1203. Unique identifier: NTR1203.

PII: S0890-8567(08)60138-0

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e318189148e

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 12 , Pages 1384-1394 , December 2008

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