Separation Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders among adults in the United States. Although anxiety disorders generally result in significant psychosocial impairment, most adults do not seek treatment until many years after the onset of the anxiety disorder. The treatment literature for anxiety disorder has grown tremendously since the 1980s, and both psychotherapy and medications may prove beneficial for people with anxiety disorders. This review presents a general overview of the anxiety disorders. This review contains 7 tables, and 33 references. Key words: agoraphobia, anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobia, treatment of anxiety

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Clinical variants and types of course of separation anxiety disorder in adults

Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii im S S Korsakova ◽

10.17116/jnevro202112105119 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 121 (5) ◽

pp. 19

Author(s):

I.A. Arkusha ◽

K.V. Zakharova ◽

M.S. Zinchuk ◽

A.S. Avedisova

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Separation Anxiety ◽

Separation Anxiety Disorder ◽

Clinical Variants

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Comparing of the Effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy and Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) on the Affective Style in Children with Separation Anxiety Disorder

Journal of Counseling Research ◽

10.18502/qjcr.v20i79.7347 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Seyyedeh Masoumeh Seyyedi Andi ◽

Mahmoud Najafi ◽

Isaac Rahimian Boogar

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Play Therapy ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Separation Anxiety ◽

Separation Anxiety Disorder ◽

Affective Style ◽

Child Centered ◽

And Control ◽

Child Centered Play Therapy ◽

Experimental Group

Aims: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of child-centered play therapy and (CPRT) on the affective styles in children suffering from separation anxiety disorder. Method: The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control groups. The statistical population of this study consisted of all female students with separation anxiety in the fifth and sixth grades of primary schools in city of Babol, of whom 45 of these students were selected via random sampling, and were randomly divided into three groups: experimental group-1, experimental group-2 and control group. The first experimental group received child-centered play therapy with Axline approach in sixteen 45-minute sessions, and the second experimental group were taught (CPRT) ten 2-hour sessions. The research instruments were questionnaire (form d) of the children Symptoms Inventory (Sprafkin, Lani & Gadow, 1994) and the Affective Style Questionnaire (Hofmann & Kashdan, 2010) . Covariance was used to analyze the data. Findings: The results showed that both interventions play an effective role in improving the affective styles in children with separation anxiety disorder. Moreover, there was a significant difference between the effectiveness of (CPRT) and child-centered play therapy and the (CPRT) was more effective in improving the affective styles there (p< 0/05). Conclusions: CPRT training can be considered as a more suitable alternative in improving the affective styles as well as in improving the psycho-cognitive symptoms of children with separation anxiety disorder.

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