Separation anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that begins in childhood and is characterized by worrying that is out of proportion to the situation of temporarily leaving home or otherwise separating from loved ones. Approximately 4%-5% of children and adolescents suffer from separation anxiety disorder. Separation Anxiety Disorder is more common in children with family histories of anxiety. Also‚ children whose mothers were stressed during pregnancy with them tend to be more at risk
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SPEECH ANXIETY AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS OF ATENEO DE ZAMBOANGA UNIVERSITY: COPING WITH SPEECH ANXIETY A Research Proposal Presented to Mr. Randy S. Magdaluyo Languages Department‚ School of Arts and Sciences Ateneo de Zamboanga University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English 112 P Research and Academic Writing by Phillip Paul S. Lim Cheska Mae L. Wee February 2014 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study
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Anxiety is characterized as an emotion of general uneasiness that can be affiliated with an object‚ situation‚ or not correlated to anything specific. Anxiety is a normal emotion felt by everyone however anxiety disorders are much more severe. Normal anxiety stimulates one to make a rational response to a situation or object‚ while abnormal anxiety irrationalizes a situation and does not dissipate when danger is gone. Anxiety disorders create a continuous interference in a person’s ability to lead
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and having been deployed related to social anxiety than in those that have not. The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between deployment and social anxiety. “In social anxiety disorder (social phobia)‚ the individual is fearful‚ anxious about or avoidant of social interactions and situations that involve the possibility of being scrutinized” (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013 p. 190). In other words‚ people with social anxiety disorder feel afraid of being embarrassed‚ or
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Anxiety in Teenagers Hello. The topic of my speech is anxiety in teenagers. Some of you might not know what anxiety is‚ so allow me to explain. It is a mental disorder that causes nervousness‚ fear‚ apprehension‚ and worrying in the people affected by it. These disorders affect how they feel and behave. Anxiety is a normal part of growing up‚ but for most children it’s only a phase‚ temporary and usually harmless. But if they have developed an anxiety disorder‚ they will experience fear‚ nervousness
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SHRI Anxiety: Causes and Management Richa Shri1 Anxiety disorders affect one-eighth of the total population worldwide‚ and have become a very important area of research interest in psychopharmacology. People with anxiety disorders can benefit from psychological treatments‚ pharmacotherapy or a combination of the two. Common limitations of conventional antianxiety therapy include co-morbid psychiatric disorders and increase in dose of drugs leading to intolerable side effects. These limitations
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Gender and Parental Marital Status as Predictors of Anxiety among Undergraduate Students 1 Gender 2 Abstract In order to investigate anxiety levels of undergraduate students at Saint Mary’s College of California‚ a questionnaire was constructed based on previous pilot-study data. Possible predictors of anxiety included gender and parents’ marital status. Women with divorced parents were hypothesized to have higher anxiety levels when compared to women with married parents‚ men
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The line between normal and abnormal cognitive changes with age remains indistinct. Normal aging is due to physiological processes over a person’s lifetime‚ in which the biological clock controls development and survival of nerve cells. That does not exclude a spectrum of variable levels of health or a continuum within normal aging‚ as well as between normal and pathological aging. At one end there are individuals with “successful aging” [34]. At the other end‚ we find frail‚ easily incompensated
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dreaded stage of child development; this is what is commonly known as separation anxiety. "Separation anxiety is a developmental stage during which the child experiences anxiety when separated from the primary care giver " (McPherson‚ 2004). Separation anxiety varies widely from child to child and most commonly occurs between the ages of eight months to two and a half. There are several different causes of separation anxiety‚ ways to manage separation anxiety to make it easier for both the child and
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RUNNING HEAD: THE AFFECT OF STRESS AND ANXIETY ON AN ATHLETES PERFORMANCE | Stress and Anxiety in Sports | Matt Lofgren | | Lethbridge College | Keith Jones | Stress and Anxiety in Sports Introduction: Sports have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember‚ and I know from countless experiences how stress and anxiety can affect ones performance. Anyone involved in sports in anyway will understand the feelings that rush through you when you are in a high risk‚ and high pressure
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