Anxiety disorders (Seroquel tabletes (Quetiapine) is used to treat schizophrenia) are very common during the childhood/adolescence period and because of the chronicity, severity and comorbidity, children need to be identified early, and treatment needs to be initiated to limit the deleterious effects on function. Although there are many modalities of treatment being used for the [...]
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Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the knowledge of the phenomenology of PTSD in children. This may be due in part to the increasing number of children who are exposed to violence. Giaconia and colleagues found that by age 18 years, greater than two-fifths of youths in a community sample met criteria for [...]
School refusal is another disorder with emerging treatment data in the literature. King and Bernstein define school refusal as difficulty attending school that is associated with emotional distress, especially anxiety and depression. Separation anxiety and school phobia have been used interchangeably; however, several studies focus on treatment of school refusal as its own entity apart [...]
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OCD is a disorder of early onset characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions severe enough to be time-consuming or result in marked distress or significant impairment. Obsessions are defined as recurrent and persistent thoughts, images or impulses that are egodystonic and intrusive. Compulsions serve to alleviate dysphoric affects associated with obsessions. Costello et al. reported [...]
Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder
The essential feature of separation anxiety disorder is excessive worry concerning separation from the home or from those to whom the person is attached. This worry is beyond what is expected for the individual’s developmental level. In clinical samples, the disorder is equally common in males [...]
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