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| D A ChaviraSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Scrutinizing the relationship between shyness and social phobiaDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0985, USA
J Anxiety Disord 16:585-98. 2002..Findings suggest that shyness and social phobia (especially the generalized type) are related constructs but not completely synonymous; an individual can be extremely shy yet not have a social phobia diagnosis...- Recent developments in child and adolescent social phobiaD A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, Box 0985, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0985, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 2:347-52. 2000..Initial data regarding the use of SSRIs suggest that they may be a promising treatment option... - A comparative study of obsessive-compulsive disorder in Costa Rica and the United StatesDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California 92037, USA
Depress Anxiety 25:609-19. 2008..However some features of OCD, such as impairment, may be culturally influenced, leading to differences in prevalence rates and treatment utilization... 
Child anxiety disorders in public systems of care: comorbidity and service utilizationDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 36:492-504. 2009..Findings underscore the substantial comorbidity among children with anxiety disorders in public sectors of care and the potential need to adapt evidence-based interventions to meet the complex and multiple needs of these children...- The impact of medical comorbidity on mental health and functional health outcomes among children with anxiety disordersDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 29:394-402. 2008..Even less is known about these problems in high-risk samples of youth... - Childhood social anxiety disorder: from understanding to treatmentDenise A Chavira
Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0985, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 14:797-818, ix. 2005..These studies will need to incorporate a multiplicity of perspectives to ensure the long-term sustainability of interventions for social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents... - Selective mutism and social anxiety disorder: all in the family?Denise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1464-72. 2007..To examine the history of lifetime psychiatric disorders in the parents of children with selective mutism (SM) compared to parents of children in a control group... - Child anxiety in primary care: prevalent but untreatedDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
Depress Anxiety 20:155-64. 2004.... - Parental opinions regarding treatment for social anxiety disorder in youthDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 24:315-22. 2003..Further research is necessary to determine if clinical interventions for child anxiety disorders may be more efficacious if parents' attitudes and beliefs about prescribed treatments are addressed... - Predictors of clinical improvement in a randomized effectiveness trial for primary care patients with panic disorderDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA 92037, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:715-21. 2009..A greater understanding of these predictors may help clinicians identify who is at greatest risk for persistent panic-related symptoms and to plan the intensity of interventions accordingly... - Comorbidity of generalized social anxiety disorder and depression in a pediatric primary care sampleDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 8950 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite 2243, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Affect Disord 80:163-71. 2004..Screening and treatment approaches that consider both social anxiety and depressive symptoms are necessary. Early intervention to treat social anxiety disorder may prevent later depressive disorders... - Refining the classification of children with selective mutism: a latent profile analysisSharon L Cohan
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 37:770-84. 2008..These results suggest that, although social anxiety is typically a prominent feature of SM, children with the disorder are also likely to present with communication delays and/or mild behavior problems... - Issues in the assessment of social phobia: a reviewAndrea M Letamendi
Department ofPsychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 82037 0855, USA
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 46:13-24. 2009..This review evaluates each method by highlighting the assessment features recommended in social phobia literature, including method of administration, item content, coverage, length of scale, type of scores generated, and time frame... - Selective Mutism Questionnaire: measurement structure and validityAndrea M Letamendi
Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:1197-1204. 2008..To evaluate the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the 17-item Selective Mutism Questionnaire (SMQ)... - Recent findings in social phobia among children and adolescentsCarla A Hitchcock
Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0985, USA
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 46:34-44. 2009..Further research is needed to clarify the developmental stages of SP, the psychometric properties of brief measures, as well as the efficacy of combined interventions... - Validation of a brief measure of anxiety-related severity and impairment: the Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS)Laura Campbell-Sills
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0603, USA
J Affect Disord 112:92-101. 2009..A prior investigation with a nonclinical sample supported the reliability and validity of the OASIS; however, to date it has not been validated for use in clinical samples... - Burden of anxiety disorders in pediatric medical settings: prevalence, phenomenology, and a research agendaHolly J Ramsawh
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0855, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:965-72. 2010..The review concludes with a discussion of future research directions that may lead to increased recognition and improved management of anxiety disorders in pediatric medical settings... - Practitioner review: Psychosocial interventions for children with selective mutism: a critical evaluation of the literature from 1990-2005Sharon L Cohan
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:1085-97. 2006..g., school) despite speaking normally in other settings (e.g., home). The present literature review was undertaken in order to provide an up-to-date summary and critique of the SM treatment literature published in the past fifteen years... - Brief measures to screen for social phobia in primary care pediatricsKelly A Bailey
San Diego State University, La Jolla, California, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:512-21. 2006..CONCLUSION: The use of valid, brief screening instruments can significantly improve the feasibility of detecting social phobia among youth in primary care pediatric settings... - Bringing up bashful baby. Developmental pathways to social phobiaM B Stein
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 24:661-75. 2001..If so, it should be possible to design early interventions to prevent the progression from phobia proneness (e.g., designated on the basis of family history) to phobic disorder... - Combined psychoeducation and treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for youth with generalized social anxiety disorderDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla 92037, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 12:47-54. 2002..Findings support the need for double-blind, placebo-controlled studies of combined treatments for youth with generalized social anxiety disorder... - Ethnicity and four personality disordersDenise A Chavira
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Compr Psychiatry 44:483-91. 2003..The factors contributing to these differences warrant further investigation... - The scale of ethnic experience: development and psychometric propertiesVanessa L Malcarne
Doctoral Training Facility, Department of Psychology, 6363 Alvarado Court, Suite103, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
J Pers Assess 86:150-61. 2006..Results support the reliability and validity of the SEE as a multidimensional measure of ethnicity-related cognitive constructs that can be used across American ethnic groups... - Heritability and clinical features of multigenerational families with obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoardingCarol A Mathews
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0984, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 144:174-82. 2007..39 for hoarding. We found reasonable power to detect regions of interest (lod = 2) for OCD in these families, but will need to expand our family collection to have adequate power to detect regions of interest for hoarding... 
Evidence for a heritable unidimensional symptom factor underlying obsessionalityCarol A Mathews
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0984, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:676-85. 2008..This component, which is heritable, accounts for the majority of the variation of the more traditionally derived symptom factors in our sample, and is composed of OCS that are not specific to any of the symptom subgroups...- Nature of anxiety comorbid with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children from a pediatric primary care settingRudy Bowen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, 103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Psychiatry Res 157:201-9. 2008..Interventions need to be tailored to address the complexity of these comorbid conditions and their associated sequelae... - Cross-cultural study of conviction subtype Taijin Kyofu: proposal and reliability of Nagoya-Osaka diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorderYoshihiro Kinoshita
Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:307-13. 2008..5% with DSM-IV and 87.6% with the modified DSM-IV with Nagoya-Osaka criteria (p < 0.001). These findings indicate that the Nagoya-Osaka criteria for SAD can improve interrater reliability of SAD... - Design of the Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) study: innovations in collaborative care for anxiety disordersGreer Sullivan
South Central VA Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, North Little Rock, AR 72214 1706, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:379-87. 2007..Since anxiety disorders are most often treated in primary care, quality improvement interventions, such as the Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) intervention, are needed in primary care...
Research Grants
- Improving Care for Anxiety in Pediatric SettingsDENISE CHAVIRA; Fiscal Year: 2007..Data regarding functional and symptom improvement, treatment acceptability, initial uptake and adherence will be used to design and parameterize a larger effectiveness trial for child anxiety disorders in primary care. ..