The Wall Street Journal had a very interesting article, titled To Be Young and Anxiety-Free, focused on the value of cognitive behavioral therapy to help children with high levels of anxiety learn how too cope better and prevent the snowball scenario, when that anxiety grows and spirals out of control resulting in depression and similar.

Some doctors believe that treating kids when they are young, especially between ages 9 and 13, could also enhance — and extend — the positive impact of treatment, since the brain is still developing. “You get a little more bang for your buck,” says Ronald E. Dahl, the Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. “You may get more enduring effects because you are hitting this window with more brain plasticity.”