When confronting a threatening or stressful situation, the body responds to the stressors with a series of chemical reactions that affect heart rate, blood pressure, and other functions. The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) was used as a measure of anxiety levels in both the control and intervention groups (Bothe, 2014). When the raw scores were compared post-intervention, the intervention group had a significant decrease in the total anxiety raw score than the control group. The control group did not show any change. At the one-year follow up, the results showed to be consistent with the post-intervention result.…
Though research about children with anxiety disorders and emotional functioning is limited, some research shown youth with anxiety disorders were stated to display more maladaptive behaviors. In conclusion, this study helped to have a better understanding of emotional and social functioning of chidlren with anxiety. This article will help me in research by better understanding children and how their anxiety affects their social and emotional functions and how it affects them in life. Kösters, Mia P., et al. " Indicated Prevention Of Childhood Anxiety And Depression: Results From A Practice-Based Study Up To 12 Months After Intervention.…
A problem can occur when anxiety triggers the “fight or flight” response, when there is not a need for it. Usually anxiety disorders appear when a child is experiencing depression or ADHD. It can also be seen as a co-occurring disorder because adolescents with anxiety disorders, typically abuse alcohol and drugs when faced with it (NAMI, 2014). The most common anxiety disorders that affect adolescents are: generalized, separation, social, panic, and obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD). When a child experiences generalized anxiety disorder, a wide variety of issues can trigger their anxiety.…
A child develops his behavior by watching the family interact. Therefore, familial environment may be a cause of the development of anxiety or other mental illnesses. A study that investigated family environment factors of the development of anxiety was performed by Hudson, et al. They focused on child anxiety to study maternal negativity and mother-child anxiety specifically. The gathered around 200 children at the age of 4 and classified them as either behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited.…
The number of children and adolescents who suffer from anxiety disorders has been increasing since the 1950s (Dwyer, 2014). The increasing rate today is due to increasing technology and performance requirements which leads to increased pressure and competition between students (Dwyer, 2014). Affecting about 10% of children and adolescents, anxiety disorders can cause anxiety distress, along with higher rates of depression, attention and concentration difficulties, increased difficulty with peer relationships, social behaviors, and poor confidence levels (McLoone, Hudson, & Rapee, 2006). “Research suggests that adolescents with anxiety disorders face an increased risk of experiencing anxiety, depression, illicit drug dependence, and educational underachievement in early adulthood” (McLoone, Hudson, & Rapee, 2006, p.221). With cooperation of parents, treatment has been typically handled within specialized centers, clinics, and private psychologists.…
In 2006, the fear of a child and adolescent epidemic shook society. The thought of a child and adolescent depression epidemic formed from four observations: a rise in antidepressant medication prescribed to adolescents and children, an increase in adolescent suicide, increased rates of long term depression in older generations, and a study in Britain found a rise in emotional problems in adolescents (Costello, Erkanli, and Angold, 2006). To address the profound question as to whether there was an epidemic in child and adolescent depression, or not, Costello et al. (2006) developed a meta-analysis formed from research studies that focused on depression in children and adolescents from the years 1950 to 1990. In addition to concluding if there…
“Age of Anxiety” 2/10/2016 Title: “In Locke's opportunity, one existed with three conceivable outcomes, “Catholic, Protestant or Heretic”! Also, two hypotheses – either one there is a regulatory power or vitality that works the Universe – or “there is not and man must” start focusing on something else and with one another in the most ideal “way he can”. I can't help thinking that whichever hypothesis one grips, that conception, living and kicking the bucket is the similar for everything. One might hold both speculations in one's mind and grow on by way of life. History has uncovered exactly how disagreeable “religious and political” speculations were.…
When I began my freshman year of high school, I knew next to nothing about anxiety or depression. Towards the end of the year I started reading up on both of them I noticed several similarities in some of the descriptions that I read and myself. Over the summer I started asking questions and then found that most of one side of my family had been diagnosed with anxiety and/or depression. Which sort of set me on edge, but I eventually let go of the thought, as I learned that anxiety and depression sometimes ran in families.…
When a teenager is depressed often times it is extremely hard to tell whether or not they actually are depressed. They will generally show two different fronts when interacting with their parents to seem as if everything is fine. One crucial component for adolescent development is the way in which that child is raised. Overprotective parenting, in essence, leads to a low sense of self esteem and self worth. Teens with overprotective parents will be less likely to challenge themselves with “potentially fearful situations” (Hudson, 2013).…
1 person said that they don’t understand the significance of anxiety which could possibly be why there’s a stigma around it still. Overall, the respondents weren’t too uninformed about anxiety but there’s definitely still a stigma around it, meaning it’s not informed enough and needs to be more educated about. Contributing factors to developing an anxiety disorder are trauma, stress buildup, personality, having blood relatives with anxiety and drug and alcohol use. Another contributing factor to anxiety is school. School can be extremely stressful at times which can cause a buildup…
Depressive Disorders and Phobias: Social and Specific Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Disorder Based on a meta-analysis written in 2014, approximately one fifth of individuals experience symptoms of either an anxiety disorder or a depressive disorder (Steel et al., 2014). Within this population, “49% to 81% of persons with a depressive disorder have met diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder, and 47% to 88% of those with an anxiety disorder have met criteria for a depressive disorder (Steel et al., 2014).” It is easy to look at these statistics and make assumptions about their causation but individuals should be open to opposing evidence. Prior societal beliefs, have concluded that there is a link but some have sought to debunk this.…
If a child that experiences anxiety can find ways to cope with it, it can help the child to not later develop other disorders. Unfortunately, anxiety is a gate way to the body later experiencing other effects. Anxiety can be extremely hard on the body physically and mentally which can lead the body to feelings of depression. A rebuttal that people may have is that the two may have nothing in common. U. Wttchen says, “Predictors for first onset of `pure' depressive and `pure' anxiety disorders revealed recognizable differences” (Wittchen 14).…
During my life so far, I’ve experienced countless challenges from tough classes, to changing friend groups, to figuring out who I want to become. However, none compare to the arduous struggle to jump out of my comfort zone and conquer my elementary anxiety on which I determined my place among my peers and began the definition of who I was. Starting elementary school, I was cripplingly anxious, not simply the occasional bout of nervousness most people get, but I was truly terrified of what others thought of me and incessantly put an incredible amount of stress on myself for only being in first grade. I couldn’t seem to grasp the concept that it was okay if I messed up, and that perfectionist stress shadowed me for eight more exasperating years.…
The disorder is experienced when a person is exposed to possible scrutiny by other people, which create fear or anxiety regarding a social situation. It includes social situations such as meeting unfamiliar people, having a conversation, performing in front of other people and being observed. If the individual is a child, the anxiety does not only occur when they meet adults, but also when they meet their peers (Autism Speaks, n.d.). Among the fears of the individual is the fear that they will act in a way that may expose their anxiety or that other people will evaluate them negatively. They fear being embarrassed or humiliated or being rejected by others because they offended them.…
Today anxiety in students is moving to a lower and lower age. Twenty-five percent of students between the ages of thirteen and fourteen have anxiety. As time goes on anxiety is increasing in students. Most adults brush it off and don’t think it is an issue, but in all reality it is because the age of students who are being affected by this gets younger and younger. Soon enough children will no longer have a childhood because they are too worried about impressing adults with knowledge and doing well in school.…