The article, “Stressful Life Events and Child Anxiety: Examining Parent and Child Mediators,” by Rheanna Platt, Sarah Williams, and Golda Ginsburg seeks to understand contributing factors of anxiety disorders in children by studying life events, and testing a theory-driven mediational model. The research being addressed tries to suggest potential targets of intervention.
Summary of the article
When it comes to anxiety by the time young adults reach the age of 26, 20% of those inviduals meet criteria for some form of anxiety disorder which stems from undiagnosed anxiety disorders during childhood (Platt, Williams, and Ginsburg 2015). The focus in this article is to link together the reasoning behind childhood anxiety by looking