A PSY 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism, Attentional Shift
10 May 2020
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Of children have an anxiety disorder. Physical system: fight or flight response, mediated by the sympathetic system. Cognitive system: attentional shift and hypervigilance, nervousness, difficulty concentrating. Many kids suffer from more than one type of behavioral disorder. Normal fears, anxieties, worries and rituals (pg. Children with anxiety disorder worry more intensely. Ritualistic and repetitive activity common in young children. Gain control and mastery of their environment. Girls tend to have more anxiety than boys. Fear is more adaptive in children but if hey still have those fears when they"re older than it can turn into an issue. Extreme, disabling fear of a specific object or situation that pose little or no harm. Child may not realize the fear is extreme and unreasonable. Often leads to avoidance and distributed routines. Adults may realize that their fear is unreasonable or extreme but children may not realize. Marked, persistent fear of being the focus k attention, or doing something humiliating.
