DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i03.005

Pages: 282-284

Children and adolescents are increasingly at risk of developing mental health issues, which negatively impact their development in their societies’. Anxiety disorders are common in this population and their management is based on psychotherapy. We’re reporting the case of a teenage girl with panic disorder associated with agoraphobia. We have proposed Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as a care method. Several meta-analysis studies have shown its effectiveness in anxiety disorders. This far, studies are mainly conducted among adult population and there is few data about children and adolescents. In Morocco, child and adolescent psychiatry is a new specialty, and CBT is still very little used. In our case, panic attacks and agoraphobia were controlled at the end of therapy, and no relapse was reported after 2 years. These results make us focus on CBT as a major care method in treating young population’s anxiety disorders.