TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Peer victimization and onset of social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents
JO  - Brain sciences
A1  - Pontillo, Maria
A1  - Tata, Maria Cristina
A1  - Averna, Roberto
A1  - Demaria, Francesco
A1  - Gargiullo, Prisca
A1  - Guerrera, Silvia
A1  - Pucciarini, Maria Laura
A1  - Santonastaso, Ornella
A1  - Vicari, Stefano
SP  - e9060132
EP  - e9060132
VL  - 9
IS  - 6
N2  - BACKGROUND: In the literature, several studies have proposed that children and adolescents with social anxiety had experienced previously victimization from peers and siblings. The aim of this review was to contribute to the updating of recent findings about the relationship between peer victimization and onset of social anxiety in children and adolescents. <br><br>METHODS: A selective review of literature published between 2011 and 2018 on Social Anxiety Disorder in children and adolescents that experienced peer victimization during childhood and adolescence. <br><br>RESULTS: Seventeen studies are included. All studies showed that peer victimization is positively correlated to the presence of social anxiety. Moreover, the perpetration of peer victimization may contribute to the maintenance and the exacerbation of social anxiety symptoms. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: In children and adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder, it is necessary to evaluate firstly the presence of peer victimization experiences. Subsequently, therapeutics programs targeted to elaborate these experiences and to reduce the anticipatory anxiety and the avoidance that characterized these children and adolescents can be proposed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2076-3425
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9060132
ID  - ref1
ER  -