skills for both symptoms of anxiety and depression in youths, specific predictors of symptoms in youth should not be overlooked. Future work that focuses on the use of stringent tests of specificity to identify those mechanisms that are truly transdiagnostic versus specific will inform our understanding of the development, prevention, and treatment of these problems in youth. The current study provides evidence to suggest specific types of stress and the use of primary and secondary control strategies to cope with this stress demonstrate specificity to symptoms of anxiety and depression in high-risk children and adolescents. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the relationship between stress, coping, and symptoms in order to inform prevention and treatment research.
