The casual factors and treatments for anxiety disorders of childhood and adolescence are:
- "Anxious children often manifest an unusual constitutional sensitivity that makes them easily conditioned by aversive stimuli…"
- The child can become anxious because of early illnesses, accidents, or losses that involved pain and discomfort. The traumatic effect of experiences such as hospitalization make such children feel insecure and inadequate. The traumatic nature of certain life changes such as moving away from friends and into a new situation can also have an intensely negative effect on a child's adjustment…
- Overanxious children often have the modeling effect of an overanxious and protective parent who sensitizes a child to dangers and threats of the outside world. Often, the parent's over protectiveness communicates lack of confidence in the child's ability to cope, thus reinforcing the child's feelings of inadequacy (Dadds, Heard, & Rapee, 1991; Woodruff-Borden et al., 2002)…
- Indifferent or detached parents (Chartier, Walker, & Stein, 2001) also foster anxiety in their children. The child may not feel adequately supported in mastering essential competencies and in gaining a positive self-concept. Repeated experiences of failure, stemming from poor learning skills, may lead to subsequent patterns of anxiety or withdrawal in the face of “threatening” situations.
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see Lauren Axelrod's Friends Revolution at http://laurenaxelrod.blogspot.com
http://www.socyberty.com/Psychology/Divorce-and-Life-Stressors.75622
http://www.healthmad.com/Addiction/Treatments-for-Substance-Abuse.231279
