TY - JOUR
T1 - An introduction to assessing anxiety in child and adolescent multiethnic populations
T2 - Challenges and opportunities for enhancing knowledge and practice
AU - Cooley, Michele R.
AU - Boyce, Cheryl A.
N1 - Funding Information:
There are common challenges to the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders among several of the racial/ethnic and cultural groups, including language and acculturation. Language poses an increasing challenge in mental health and other service sectors because the immigrant population in the United States is growing rapidly (U.S. Census, 2000). The educational and mental health service systems should in turn improve their linguistic access and cultural competence to adequately meet the needs of the diversified American youth (Malgady, Rogler, & Constatino, 1987; President’s Advisory Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islanders, 2001; USDHHS, 2001). The incentives for using ethnically and culturally congruent assessment strategies have increased greatly in the past several years. As noted, the changing demographics of the United States reflect that the largest proportionate population increases have been and continue to be among racial/ethnic minority children and adolescents. Another example is reflected in research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In recent years, policies of the NIH require clinical studies to include children (NIH, 1998) and ethnic minorities (NIH, 1994) as research participants. Simply put, researchers and clinicians are increasingly faced with assessing, treating, and studying ethnically/racially and culturally diverse populations. One question is whether the appropriate tools exist to do so. This special section aspires to advance the available assessment strategies that are appropriate for the treatment, prevention, and research of ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse children and adolescents with anxiety symptomatology and disorders. The articles in this special section are diverse in content, methodological approach, and the racial/ethnic groups that they target. The broad collection of articles includes contributions from some of the foremost anxiety researchers of racial/ethnic minority children and adolescents in the field today, either as coauthors of studies or authors of commentaries.
Funding Information:
This article was supported in part by grants to Michele Cooley from the National Institute of Mental Health (K01 MH01661 and R21 MH63143). The guest editor of this special section would like to thank the authors and reviewers of the articles contained in this special section for their contributions. Guest reviewers include Emily Arcia (Mount Sinai Medical Center), Cheryl Boyce (National Institute of Mental Health), Rhonda Boyd (University of Pennsylvania), Michele Carter (American University), Golda Ginsburg (Johns Hopkins University), Nicholas Ialongo (Johns Hopkins University), Richard Lee (University of Minnesota), Antolin Llorente (Baylor College of Medicine), Cecil Reynolds (Texas A&M University), Brad Schmidt (Ohio State University), and Paula Smith (University of Utah). It is hoped that the publication of this collection of articles will inspire others to advance the culturally and contextually appropriate clinical intervention, prevention, and research of anxiety disorders among youth from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Recognizing that researchers and clinicians are increasingly faced with assessing, treating, and studying ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse populations, one question is whether the appropriate tools exist. This special section aspires to advance the available assessment strategies that are appropriate for the treatment, prevention, and research of diverse children and adolescents with anxiety symptoms and disorders. This introduction presents an overview of anxiety and its disorders among multiethnic youth and identifies emerging challenges and opportunities in the assessment and treatment of anxiety symptoms and disorders among Asian American and Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, African American, and European American children and adolescents within a sociocultural context.
AB - Recognizing that researchers and clinicians are increasingly faced with assessing, treating, and studying ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse populations, one question is whether the appropriate tools exist. This special section aspires to advance the available assessment strategies that are appropriate for the treatment, prevention, and research of diverse children and adolescents with anxiety symptoms and disorders. This introduction presents an overview of anxiety and its disorders among multiethnic youth and identifies emerging challenges and opportunities in the assessment and treatment of anxiety symptoms and disorders among Asian American and Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, African American, and European American children and adolescents within a sociocultural context.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15374424jccp3302_1
DO - 10.1207/s15374424jccp3302_1
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15136184
AN - SCOPUS:2442717747
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 33
SP - 210
EP - 215
JO - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
IS - 2
ER -