Multidimensional Anxiety Scale For Children 1st Edition

Childhood anxiety is quickly becoming the most challenging of all childhood problems. As the root of most problems, anxiety covers a long range of stressors that spread quickly if not treated or relieved early in life. Anxious feelings in children varies from children of all backgrounds. All people feel anxious at one point or another, and it is only when children are affected daily and unable to be calmed when people should become concerned. Many times, children are feeling overwhelmed and cannot express themselves or struggle to understand his/her feelings. Social and emotional development then plays a big part when facing concerns like anxiety in a young childhood environment. Teachers and caregivers need to take a step back and focus on what the child needs rather than what he/she can do to make children calm down. Through interventions, patience, and caring teachers, a young child does not need to be known as "The Child Who is Anxious", he/she can just be a child.

Rosslynn presented as a Caucasian female who was of average stature and normal build. She appeared her stated age of nine. The youth was casually dressed and exhibited adequate grooming and hygiene. No gross abnormalities were noted in ambulation, posture, and/or coordination, nor did Rosslynn exhibit difficulties with fine or gross motor skills. The youth’s expressive speech appeared normal in rate/rhythm and tone. Rosslynn was cooperative with the examiner and the evaluation process. Rosslynn displayed no severe cognitive deficits or impediments in need of neuropsychological/neurological attention, as grossly assessed by the Mental Status Examination. She maintained appropriate eye contact throughout the interview. Rosslynn was oriented in all spheres. The youth presented with appropriate immediate and short-term memory, as she was able to recall what she had for dinner the night before the interview, and recalled three words presented to her orally. Remote memory also appeared intact, as Rosslynn was able to recall historic information when she was two year of age. No gross impairments in attention or concentration skills were noted. The youth appeared to have adequate abstract thinking abilities. Rosslynn appeared performed fairly in the serial seven task as she was able to complete three of the seven. She was able to recall digits presented to her orally, both forward and

The concept of “pediatric anxiety” emerged as a central theme in a study of pediatric patients in the Pediatric Emergency Department in order to better care for the pediatric population, determine the source of the patient’s fears, along with providing all encompassing care to pediatric patients. Therefore, I decided to examine the concept of pediatric anxiety. Pediatric patients often attribute hospitals, nurses, and doctors with needles as most often the healthy child sees their pediatrician for well child check ups and immunizations. Some pediatric patients have been diagnosed with anxiety and deal with anxiety on a daily basis while others ' anxiety arises with emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Pediatric anxiety in the hospital can be a result of a multitude of factors and can be demonstrated in a multitude of ways. While some patients may scream and cry, others may become withdrawn. Walking into the doors of an unknown place while feeling sick or experiencing pain, can certainly produce anxiety for patients of all ages. Particularly pediatric patients, with their fear of strangers, inability to comprehend the rationale behind illness or providing care for such illnesses and diseases, and fear of "getting hurt or needles" can all be contributors to anxiety. “Hospitalization can be a threatening and stressful experience for children. Because of unfamiliar with the environment and medical procedures and unaware

For instance, there are schools that stress students extremely. Numberless of schools have so many high expectations for students that they don’t even realize the damage it does to students. In the article “When Anxiety Hits at School” The Atlantic points out, “High performance expectations” surrounding school and sports result in stress and in turn, anxiety.” In the interest of schools that set high expectations for students, students are not used to having a high standard in school so they feel stressed as a result of this. Schools have to bring about being rigid with their students knowing that students can’t achieve perfection. Schools don’t ask for perfection, but it feels like that for students. To add on, The Atlantic also points

She finds herself constantly worrying about the status of her home, being late to work despite waking up an hour before departure, any possible accidents which may lead to her death, and various scenarios which lead to unfortunate events. She states that she has been married for about 10 years to her college sweetheart. She has no children due to her worries of complications during childbearing and raising children. She explains that she worries whether her children will be considered normal, pretty, or crazy. She describes her marriage as ‘hell’ because she feels like her husband does not support her. She does not mention any other family member besides her husband when asked about her family. Janine holds a job as a tax accountant. She works from 6am to 11pm, and recently she has been bringing her work home. This is due to her thoughts constantly interfering with her concentration on tasks. Recently work has been overwhelming for her since there is no method for relieving stress. She states that her husband does not help her with housework, which adds to the stress from work. In fact, she does not see her husband often which prompts her to worry if her husband is having an affair. She is not on medication at the moment; however, she used to take Xanax once every morning for 2 years. As for meals, she states that she only eats quarry, animals hunted for food, and that she does not eat vegetables.

She finds herself constantly worrying that there is no reason; such as the status of her home, being late to work despite waking up an hour before departure, any possible accidents which may lead to her death, and various scenarios which lead to unfortunate events. She states that she has been married for about 10 years to her college sweetheart. She has no children due to her worries of complications during childbearing and raising children. She worries that her children whether children will turn out to be normal, pretty, or crazy like their mother. She describes her marriage as ‘hell’ due to her husband’s lack of support. She does not mention any other family member besides her husband when asked about her family. Janine holds s a job in as a tax accountant. She works from 6am to 11pm, and she brings her work home with her. This is due to her anxiousness interfering with her concentration on tasks. Recently work has been overwhelming for her since there is no method for relieving her stress. She states that her husband does not help her with housework, which adds to the stress from work. In fact, she does not see her husband often which prompts her to worry if her husband is having an affair. She is not on medication at the moment; however, she used to take Xanax once every morning for 2 years. As for meals, she states that she only eats quarry, animals hunted for food, and that she

Anxiety is a type of mood disorder that can cause a loss of interest or even sadness. Anxiety affects how you feel, function and think. For a person diagnosed with anxiety disorder, the anxiety will not go away on its own and can get worse over a period of time. The feelings can withdrawal a person from daily activities such as a jobs, school, and relationships. There are many types of anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder.

All children experience some type of anxiety. For example, when a child is left alone at preschool for the first time, many children will show distress. Another example could be when a child has his or her own room, this could develop a fear of the dark. Now normally these aren’t problems but, such anxiety could become a problem when it interrupts a child’s normal activities, like attending school and making friends or sleeping. Persistent or intense anxiety that disrupts daily routine is a mental health problem that requires attention.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health illness that affect children and the amount of children affected by this mental illness has increased considerably in the past century. However, the amount of children that actually get treatment is drastically low, leaving children to deal with their fears and worries by themselves. The children who deal with anxiety are overcome with fear and worry and are constantly dismissed as acting out for attention because people are unaware of how serious anxiety can affect children. Anxiety plagues children and can affect them for their entire life if not treated. In order to make sure these suffering children get the care they need, there needs to be more emphasis on anxiety disorders. Childhood anxiety disorders affect the child and the people involved in the child’s life, yet there is not enough treatment or awareness in today’s society.

Childhood anxiety is a topic that various psychologist have dissected in recent years. The reason for its popularity is the wide assortment of variables that contribute to the development of childhood anxiety and the developmental impact it has on children. The most explored variables, that can be predictors of childhood anxiety, are parental factors. These factors include genetic, cognitive, and behavioral influences. Within the last decade, researchers have looked at a combination of these factors in tandem, instead of as separate entities. Cognitive and behavioral variables are grouped together to form an anxiety parenting style. Anxious parenting styles, utilized with or without a clinical diagnosis, have a detrimental effect on

Anxiety amongst patients scheduled to experience different surgical methods has been an issue of concern for health specialists and patients (Alanazi et al. 2014).

The PSWQ-C is a 14 item self-report questionnaire designed to assess worry in children and adolescents with scores ranging from 0 to 42 with higher scores representing greater tendency to worry. Amanda obtained a score of 10 on the PSWQ-C. More specifically, her score falls in the 55th percentile for females her age, which indicates that she does not experience excessive worry. This is consistent with the information gathered from Mrs. Williams and Amanda from the clinical interviews and the results of the BASC-3.

The Beck Anxiety Inventory is a 21-item scale that measures the severity of self-reported anxiety in adults and adolescents. The inventory was created by Aaron T. Beck and his colleague, Robert A. Steer, at the Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. The most recent edition was published in 1993 by The Psychological Corporation, Harcourt Brace & Company in San Antonio, TX. The first edition was published in 1988. The 1993 edition recommends different scoring guidelines than previous editions. There is only one form and one manual as part of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). To purchase the BAI in 2010, the manual and 25 scoring sheets

Agitation is pretty much an early stage of anxiety, which if kept in check, can prevent it from increasing. I have developed problems with anxiety that stemmed from PTSD; in addition to having a type A personality (which is a continual aspect of my personality that I am constantly working on). I can tell beforehand when little things annoy me (I mean little, like dropping a pencil twice) that anxiety will follow. I have learned to stop what ever it is I am doing that is causing frustration and step back from it, take a few deep breaths and either return or take a different course of action. So "taking a moment" really does help.

The participants were Biopsychology students attending Charles Sturt University, 12 females, aged between 18 and 25 years, (M = 20 years, SD = 2 years) and 7 males, aged between 18 and 23 years (M = 20 years, SD = 2 years) and participation in the study was voluntary.