Your first day of school will be scary!
Parents’ words and Anxiety disorder: a series of Articles by Jeffrey Pella.
Your first day of school will be scary!
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Parents’ words and anxiety disorders – Part 1 Anxiety disorders affect a range of individuals in marked and persistent ways. Unlike other clinical disorders (e.g. depression), anxiety disorders can begin to manifest themselves in early childhood, in some cases before a child is even ten years old. This is important as ... Continua
Your first day of school will be scary!
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Parents’ words and anxiety disorders – part 2 In part one of this series I briefly discussed the onset, prevalence, severity and course of anxiety disorders. I also highlighted some parental behaviors that are thought to encourage the development of shy and anxious behavior in children. In part 2 of this series I am discussing the ... Continua
Your first day of school will be scary!
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Parents’ words and anxiety disorders – part 3 During the second installment of this series, I discussed the tendency of anxious individuals to over interpret threat in the face of ambiguity. Further, anxious mothers’ expectations of their children’s struggles and their children’s own expectations of elevated vulnerability in these ... Continua
Your First Day of School will be Scary!
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Parents’ words and anxiety disorders – part 4 Up to this point in the series, I have discussed why it is so important to further understanding of the development of anxiety disorders in children. I have also touched on the importance of various types of parenting styles which may increase the development of anxiety in ... Continua
Your first day of school will be scary!
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Parents’ words and anxiety disorders – part 5 Throughout this series I have explained that parents of anxious children tend to behave in stereotyped ways. In of this series, I highlighted the potential impact of fear inducing words on children. This installment will investigate the conversations that mothers have with their children ... Continua
Anxiety and Emotional Conversations between Mothers, Fathers and Children.
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Parents’ words and anxiety disorders – Part 6 Throughout this series, there has been a focus on the importance of mothers rather than fathers in the transmission of anxiety. There are many reasons for this; research has shown that mothers do in fact play a more central role in their children’s development than fathers. ... Continua
Parents’ Words and Anxiety Disorders – Part 7
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Parents’ Words and Anxiety Disorders – Part 7 – Summing up: As we arrive at the seventh installment of this series, I feel it is appropriate to recapture the major points that have been explored thus far. First, why study anxiety disorders? Well, anxiety in adults and children is more prevalent than most people ... Continua
The effectiveness of video feedback therapy – Part 4
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Experimental mothers and their children made more elaborative and emotional utterances than mothers in the control condition. The children in the experimental group also showed better emotion-cause knowledge than control children.
Behavioral Inhibition and Child Anxiety
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Garcia-Coll, Kagan and Reznick (1984) define behavioral inhibition as a trait characterized by shy, withdrawn, uneasy, vigilant, and restrained behavior in the context of unfamiliar social or non social situations.
Behavioral Inhibition and Child Anxiety #2
Pubblicato da: Jeffrey Pella
Research has established that infants classified as inhibited continue to exhibit anxious and reserved behavior throughout childhood and into adolescence. As the features of an inhibited temperament mirror the symptoms of social anxiety, the relationship between the two has been examined.








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