The short version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) was used for the present study (Birmaher et al., 1999). This 5 item version of SCARED consists of the 5 indicators that discriminate best between anxious and non-anxious children, assessed by a comprehensive symptom checklist for all DSM-IV diagnoses. Further, it has shown similar psychometric properties to the 41-item SCARED (Birmaher et al., 1999). The Cronbach's alpha of the 5 item SCARED was 0.69 in the current study. Alpha values when individual items were deleted were examined and one of the items contributed negatively to the alpha value (alpha value when item was removed ¼ 0.72). However, as the short version of SCARED is an established scale we could not remove the item as it would preclude comparison to other studies.