With contributions from a global team of experts this book provides a comprehensive overview of information processing biases in children and adolescents. The first book to provide readers with an understanding of anxiety and the role of information processing biases more broadly in the context of developmental psychopathology Demonstrates how researchers have explored diverse aspects of information processing in anxious children and adolescents Draws on the microparadigms used in the study of development and psychopathology to consider issues related to heritability, temperament, learning and parenting Considers preventative methods and treatment protocols

With contributions from a global team of experts this book providesa comprehensive overview of information processing biases inchildren and adolescents.* The first book to provide readers with an understanding ofanxiety and the role of information processing biases more broadlyin the context of developmental psychopathology* Demonstrates how researchers have explored diverse aspects ofinformation processing in anxious children and adolescents* Draws on the microparadigms used in the study of developmentand psychopathology to consider issues related to heritabilitytemperament, learning and parenting* Considers preventative methods and treatment protocols

List of Contributors.Preface.1. An Introduction to the Study of Information Processing Biasesin Childhood Anxiety: Theoretical and MethodologicalIssues (Julie A. Hadwin and Andy P. Field).Theoretical and Research Issues.2. Anxiety-Related Reasoning Biases in Children and Adolescents(Peter Muris).3. The Emotional Stroop Task in Anxious Children (Zoë C.Nightingale, Andy P. Field and Merel Kindt).4. Selective Attention to Threat in Childhood Anxiety: Evidencefrom Visual Probe Paradigms (Matthew Garner).5. The Use of Visual Search Paradigms to Understand AttentionalBiases in Childhood Anxiety (Nick Donnelly, Julie A. HadwinTamaryn Menneer and Helen J. Richards).6. Using Eye Tracking Methodology in Children with AnxietyDisorders (Tina In-Albon and Silvia Schneider).7. The Assessment of Fear-Related Automatic Associations inChildren and Adolescents (Jorg Huijding, Reinout W. Wiers andAndy P. Field).8. Application of Cognitive Neuroscience Techniques to the Studyof Anxiety-Related Processing Biases in Children (KoralyPérez-Edgar and Yair Bar-Haim).The Origin and Treatment of Information Processing Biases inChild Anxiety.9. Genetics (Thalia C. Eley and Helena M.S. Zavos)10. Temperamental Factors Associated with the Acquisition ofInformation Processing Biases and Anxiety (Lauren K. WhiteSarah M. Helfinstein and Nathan A. Fox).11. Learning of Information Processing Biases in AnxiousChildren and Adolescents (Andy P. Field and Kathryn J.Lester).12. Intergenerational Transmission of Anxious InformationProcessing Biases (Cathy Creswell, Peter Cooper and LynneMurray).13. Attentional Biases in Children: Implications for Treatment(Maria J.W. Cowart and Thomas H. Ollendick)Index.