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Separation Anxiety Disorder

Is your childs feelings of apprehension due to removal of significant persons or familiar surroundings. This condition is most common in infants 12 to 24 months old.

Separation Anxiety Disorder

PsychNet-UK Separation Anxiety Disorder Information Sheet – Description,Causation, Treatment, Associated Features, Differential Diagnosis etc.

Anxiety Care UK – Separation Anxiety and Over-anxious Disorder.Separation Anxiety is completely normal in very young children. Once a child has developed the ability to remember the face of its mother (or mother substitute),it will respond to different faces with various levels of alarm because it cannot assimilate the new image with mother which is the child’s prime focus; this usually occurs somewhere between the ages of six and nine months. 3/5

Do All Babies Experience Separation Anxiety?. – From Baby centre. Yes, to a degree. At certain stages, most babies or toddlers will show true anxiety and be upset at the prospect — or reality — of being separated from a parent. If you think about separation anxiety in evolutionary terms, it makes sense: A defenseless baby would naturally get upset at being separated from the person who protects and cares for him. 3/5

MedicineNet – Separation Anxiety – Treatment, Medication etc. To understand separation anxiety disorder, it is important to first recognize the normal difficulty that infants and toddlers have with strangers and in separating from parents and caretakers.. 3/5

Separation Anxiety and Over-anxious Disorder – Separation Anxiety is completely normal in very young children. Separation Anxiety is completely normal in very young children. Once a child has developed the ability to remember the face of its mother (or mother substitute),it will respond to different faces with various levels of alarm because it cannot assimilate the new image with mother which is the child’s prime focus; this usually occurs somewhere between the ages of six and nine months. 3/5

Separation Anxiety in Children – Easing Separation Anxiety Disorder. It’s natural for your young child to feel anxious when you say goodbye. Although it can be difficult, separation anxiety is a normal stage of development. 3/5

Anxiety Explained -Dropping your baby off at nursery, with a carer or even with a well known family member can be traumatic experience for you and your little one, and is not helped by your baby’s powerful set of lungs screaming for you to come back. Plus suggestions as to ways to make this developmental phase easier for you and your baby. 3/5

 

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