Neurally Targeted Cognitive Training to Augment CBT Outcomes in Pediatric Anxiety

The CBT intervention will consist of 12 weekly 60 minute sessions of the manualized therapy, adapted from the Coping Cat program, for the treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders.

CCT intervention will consist of approximately 30 minutes of CCT games prior to each CBT session, to engage cognitive control capacity prior to receipt of CBT. The CCT games will be designed to target focused attention, response inhibition, working memory and multiple simultaneous attention to constitute a general executive function training, and activate neural systems associated with executive function/cognitive control. Difficulty of the games will be titrated individually and by session to avoid boredom and progressively activate the functional systems underlying cognitive control.