"Children of parents with anxiety disorders are more likely todevelop anxiety disorders than children of normal controls . This familial aggregation is due to genetic and environmental influences, whereas it can be assumed that shared environmental influences have the greatest effects during childhood, decreasing with age.
"The aim of this naturalistic prospective longitudinal study was to get first evidence of whether successful cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) of parental panic disorder (PD) has a positive long-term impact on children's psychopathology....
"Furthermore, participation in treatment, regardless of the success of the treatment, had a significant positive effect on offspring. Thus, parental treatment seems to benefit not only the patients themselves, but also their children."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-panic-parents-children.html
Schneider S. et al. (2013). "Panic Treatment Reduces Children's Long-Term Psychopathology: A Prospective Longitudinal Study." Psychother Psychosom No. 82 p346-348. Preview.
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