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Overanxious Disorder

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International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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Overanxious disorder is a childhood anxiety disorder subtype characterized by anxiety that is not focused on a specific situation or object. Instead, overanxious children are general “worriers” who tend to worry excessively or unrealistically about future or past events. As with other anxiety disorders evident in childhood and adolescence, overanxious disorder is characterized by physiological symptoms, covert feelings of distress and irrational thoughts, and overt behaviors such as anxious mannerisms and avoidance behavior.

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  1. Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32606, USA

    Cyd C. Strauss

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  1. Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061-0436, USA

    Thomas H. Ollendick

  2. Department of Education, Monash University, Clayton, 3168, Victoria, Australia

    Neville J. King

  3. Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, SE5 8AF, UK

    William Yule

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Strauss, C.C. (1994). Overanxious Disorder. In: Ollendick, T.H., King, N.J., Yule, W. (eds) International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1498-9_10

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