All kids have fears, whether they're scared of a dark bedroom, a new school year, or the neighbor's dog. Most will simply complain about these worries and move on. But about 7 percent of children aged ...

Your child is not stuck in fear; they are stuck in thought. When reassurance backfires, anxiety tightens its grip. Here's ...

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For children with severe social anxiety or selective mutism (a condition in which children selectively speak in only certain settings), accommodation may manifest as the parent ordering for the child ...

Anxiety disorders are often associated with adults dealing with stress, but anxiety also affects children. In fact, according to the National Library of Medicine, around 7.1 percent of children ...

Now, let’s spend some time thinking about your own child’s worries and fears. To help get you started, we created a checklist that includes common fears within different categories. Here are example ...

Children of anxious parents are not more sensitive In their experiment, the researchers also looked at whether children of parents who themselves suffered from social anxiety were more sensitive to ...

A new study from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland screened school-age children for anxiety and examined the efficacy of the Master Your Worries programme ...

As a child, Trudi Sullivan would become very anxious by changes in her routine. No matter how hard she tried, she could not calm herself when that happened. Many years later, she was diagnosed with ...

(CNN) — It may have been monsters under the bed, robbers breaking into the house or ghosts lurking in the darkness sending shivers down your spine when you were young. Many people might vividly ...

School anxiety in children can manifest in physical complaints and behavioral changes. Parents are urged to validate their ...