Anxiety Disorder,Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders diagnosed in pediatric patients. The prevalence of anxiety in childhood indicates it is the earliest form of psychopathology (Beesdo, Knappe, & Pine, 2011). Sustaining mental health is important to the growth and the development of children. There are several stages or phases that children progress through as they mature in age. Conquering each foundational platform whether it is Erikson’s developmental stages or Freud’s psychoanalytic theory it is expected that mastering these phases will create a sense of mental and physical stability. Mental illness can be detected more accurately in adults due to verbal and nonverbal communication. With children, identifying mental illness is often challenging and may require the observations of various providers that include parents, teachers, and physicians. 

 

Please choose three of the questions/prompts below to answer.

 

• 1. Anxiety in and of itself is not pathological. When assessing anxiety in the pediatric population    one should be aware of developmentally appropriate fear/anxiety; what are the expected    fears/anxieties for early infancy, late infancy, toddlerhood, early childhood, elementary school-aged,   and adolescents?
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• 2. You have just diagnosed a child with anxiety what are the most significant interventions that you would recommend to the child’s parents to increase coping strengths
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• 3. What factors are thought to contribute to the development of anxiety disorders at each stage
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• 4. How does anxiety affect normal development?

 

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