Anxiety is on the rise among children and adolescents. Studies show that as many as one in eight children may experience significant anxiety. Knowledgeable observers offer a number of reasons.

A clinical trial found that spending about 10 minutes with a therapy dog reduced patients’ anxiety in a pediatric emergency room.

According to the poster, the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) score was used to find the presence of an anxiety disorder in children ... Self-Efficacy Scale for Parents score ...

Anxiety disorders are very common in autistic kids, affecting about half of all children at some point in time. Autistic children can experience anxiety in their own ways. They might be afraid of ...

The researchers analyzed data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), a large-scale survey that is ... for at ...