In childhood anxiety disorders can be categorized into several parts, ie to avoid disturbances, excessive anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder.
Avoidance Disorders
The main causes of this disorder is not associated with people who are not known to interfere with social functioning THIS child with his peers. Anxiety resulted in children will be shy, withdrawn, difficulty speaking, fear or even silent on the presence of people who are not known. Please note the symptoms like this must take place within a period of at least 6 months and did not equate this disorder with a sense of shame that only lasts a short time frame in shame as this is normal for children. Indeed, such interference is very difficult to identify because it became known only after long periods of time.
Anxiety disorders are Overstated
The main characteristic of this disorder is a concern or anxiety that continuous and prolonged (at least for a period of 6 months) of events in the future (eg exams, danger, social events), the behavior in the past, and capabilities (social, academic and athletic). Prolonged anxiety that resulted in somatic symptoms of physical basis can not be found, and also causes much thought or concern individual himself, and not able to be relaxed. Anxiety of ability and achievement can cause children to become perfeksionistik and obsessive, tenedsni that can interfere with the actual performance and social development of children.
Separation Anxiety Disorder
As contained in the title itself, separation anxiety disorder is anxiety and worry that is not realistic to children about what will happen when he parted ways with the people who play an important role in his life, such as parents. This fear may be centered on what might happen with individuals who parted with the child (eg parents will die, or did not return for any other reason) or what happened to the child in case of separation (he will be lost, abducted, abused or killed). For this reason, the child was reluctant to be separated from others, and maybe that he did not want to sleep alone unaccompanied or accompanied by his favorite character or unable to leave home without accompanied by others. In some cases, children may complain of simton simton-physical (eg nausea, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, etc.), or do not want to go to school solely because of fear of the occurrence of separation for no other reason, such as fears of school events.
Apart from that problem, separation anxiety disorder can interfere with and slow social development of children because he does not develop or learn to get along with the independence of their peers. Furthermore, if the child is separated (left), he can not function properly because he was gripped by fear of pa that will happen by itself or with the people who parted with him. Although he was with the people that are important to him, but the child function may be impaired because of anxiety antisipatori against the possibility of separation. Due to excessive sadness, amak child would cry, mengadat, miserable, apathetic, socially or resigned at the time before or after the ongoing separation from important figures or familiar with it.
The Reason :
Description of anxiety disorders in childhood is the same as the explanation of anxiety disorders in adulthood. Psychodynamic approach suggests that these anxieties disebabka by the conflicts that have not been completed, and learning approach suggested that anxiety is a classically conditioned response, whereas according to the cognitive approach to anxiety was due to cognitive distortions and false beliefs. Physiological approaches suggest that physiological processes are important and hence the anxiety that occurs in children are caused by problems related to synaptic transmission.
