Separation Anxiety Disorder
{"Image DocumentName": "Separation Anxiety Disorder", "Image ImageDescription": "Fear something bad will happen to them or loved one when apart. Avoid being apart from parent or caregiver. Significant distress/anxiety when separated or anticipating separation. Criteria for diagnosis: School age & have experienced distress for at least 4 weeks. Physical symptoms: headache, stomach ache, behavioral outbursts, crying, clinging and/or yelling. Difficulty with babysitters, sleeping alone, getting to school. Child misses out on social opportunities. Interferes with development of age appropriate independence and academic success. Separation Anxiety Disorder. Separation Anxiety Disorder is one of the most common anxiety disorders in children. Separation anxiety is a normal stage of early development, however if it continues into school age, it can cause significant distress and interfere with normal developmental tasks such as going to school and sleeping in one\u2019s own room. Fear something bad will happen to them or loved one when apart. Children with separation anxiety disorder fear something bad will happen to them or someone they love (usually parents or caregiver) when they are apart. This fear causes children to avoid being out of sight from the parent or caregiver, or to have significant distress and anxiety when they are separated or anticipate separation. Criteria for Diagnosis: To meet the criteria of separation anxiety disorder, the patient will have experienced this distress for at least 4 weeks. Anxiety symptoms can manifest as physical complaints such as headache and stomach ache on school mornings (that do not occur on weekend mornings), and/or behaviour outbursts, crying, clinging and yelling. Parents with children with separation anxiety disorder will describe not being able to leave their child with a babysitter, their child not able to sleep in their own bed (parent falls asleep with them, or they sleep in parents room), and difficulty getting the child to school in the morning. Often parents will be called from school by children with separation anxiety disorder seeking reassurance that their parent is okay, checking when they will be picked up, or insisting on coming home because they feel sick (due to anxiety). Children with separation anxiety disorder miss out on social opportunities with friends, such as play date or sleepover, because they do not want to be away from home or their parent. This disorder can cause significant distress and dysfunction for the child and family, and significantly interfere with development of age appropriate independence and academic success.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}