Fortified with contemporary individual case studies of both teens and adults, each title in the Compact Research: Diseases and Disorders series discusses variations of each disease, as well as the prevalence, symptoms, causes, effects, diagnoses, and treatment, drawing upon media interviews and commentary as well as clinical reports and research studies. Anxiety Disorders will have wide YA readership, especially because it is the most common form of mental illness in the U. S. om post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks to claustrophobia. The discussion is jargon free, honest about trauma's agonizing toll, and includes info on therapy and medications. The clear design includes recent graphs and tables, color photos and diagrams, and lots of carefully documented primary-source quotes from patients, researchers, and scientists.

In each volume, a two-page "At a Glance" section and a longer "Overview" section introduce four essays describing the title disease/disorder, its causes, risks/problems, and treatment or prevention. Each essay is followed by quotations from primary and secondary sources and a bulleted list of facts, charts, and graphs. The quotes lack context, making it difficult to judge validity or bias. Reading list, timeline, websites. Ind.