A High-Risk Pilot Study of the Children of Adults with Social Phobia

OBJECTIVE: Children of patients with social phobia were studied to estimate their rates of psychiatric disorder. METHOD: Twenty-six social-phobic outpatients who had at least one child between the ages of 4 and 18 years participated in the study. Information was collected from parents on all 47 children and from the children between 12 and 18 years of age. Diagnoses in the children were made based on DSM-III-R and were done by a best-estimate …