Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Anxiety and anxiety disorders in adults".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Guidelines for the management of conditions specifically related to stress (2013)

●World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP): Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in primary care (2012)

●WFSBP: Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and post-traumatic stress disorders – First revision (2008)

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications for the treatment of child and adolescent mental illness (2013, reaffirmed 2018)

●Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada (ADAC): Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders (2014)

●Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT): Task force recommendations for the management of patients with mood disorders and comorbid anxiety disorders (2012)

United States

●American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP): Clinical practice guideline for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders (2020)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Guidelines for pediatric providers for recognizing and referring children with posttraumatic stress disorder (2018)

●AAP: Clinical report on clinical considerations related to the behavioral manifestations of child maltreatment (2017)

●AAP: Clinical report on providing psychosocial support to children and families in the aftermath of disasters and crises (2015)

●AACAP: Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder (2010)

●American Psychiatric Association (APA): Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with panic disorder, 2nd edition (2009)

•APA: Treating panic disorder – A quick reference guide (2009)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on post-traumatic stress disorder (2018)

●NICE: Guideline on child abuse and neglect (2017)

●NICE: Guideline on children's attachment − Attachment in children and young people who are adopted from care, in care or at high risk of going into care (2015)

●British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP): Guidelines for evidence-based pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (2005, revised 2014)

●NICE: Quality standard on anxiety disorders (2014)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on social anxiety disorder – Recognition, assessment and treatment (2013)

Australia-New Zealand

●Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health (PACPMH): Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents – A practitioner guide to treatment (2013)

●PACPMH: Australian guidelines for the treatment of acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (2013)