Anxiety disorders in children will lead to serious complications. It jeopardizes their relationships with the family and inhibits their social skills. Anxiety in children is the consequence of many psychological factors. These children exhibit excessive worrying and most of the times appears to be distressed.
If you approach the doctor, they recommend two main treatments. They are antidepressant medications and psychological counselling. If the problem is acute, medication is given to relieve the painful symptoms quickly. However, medications are not effective in the long run on the other hand they are counter productive.
Psychological counselling is the very effective treatment as it addresses the root cause of the problem. Cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT) is one of the most common types of psychotherapy for anxiety in children.
Children with anxiety exhibit the following symptoms:
(Excerpts from worrywisekids.org )- Excessive, unrealistic fears about day-to-day activities
- “What if” concerns that span far into the future
- Uncontrollable worry about multiple situations, performance, social, academic, health, financial
- Physical symptoms: headaches, stomachaches, inability to unwind
- Difficulty concentrating, always thinking what’s next
- Low risk-taking; Need for reassurance and approval for small steps
- Perfectionism, great fear of making mistakes, fear of criticism; unrealistic unfavorable assessment of their grades, abilities
- Over-responsibility, feels that tragedies are preventable by worry, and if disaster happens that it’s their fault
- Any negative piece of news that happens to others, fears will happen to them; everything is contagious by association: divorce, illness, car accidents, food poisoning
- Reviewing events to make sure that didn’t hurt anyone’s feelings or do anything wrong
- Sleep difficulties, irritability, fatigue
If you approach the doctor, they recommend two main treatments. They are antidepressant medications and psychological counselling. If the problem is acute, medication is given to relieve the painful symptoms quickly. However, medications are not effective in the long run on the other hand they are counter productive.
Psychological counselling is the very effective treatment as it addresses the root cause of the problem. Cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT) is one of the most common types of psychotherapy for anxiety in children.