The prevalence of adult separation anxiety disorder in a clinical sample of patients with ADHD

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical correlates of agoraphobic fear and avoidance and panic disorder in a non-clinical sample of adolescents.Method. In a sample of 2365 high school students, combined data from a questionnaire and a structured clinical interview were used to classify subjects with agoraphobic fear and avoidance. Panic symptoms, major depression, childhood separation anxiety disorder, anxiety sensitivity and negative affectivity were also assessed.Results. Fifteen subjects met study criteria for agoraphobic fear and avoidance in the past year. Only three (20%) of those with agoraphobia symptoms reported histories of panic attacks and there was no overlap between those with agoraphobic fear and avoidance and the 12 subjects who met DSM-III-R criteria for panic disorder. However, subjects with agoraphobia symptoms and those with panic disorder reported similar levels of anxiety sensitivity and negative affectivity. Childhood separation anxiety disorder was more common among those with agoraphobic fear and avoidance compared to those without.Conclusion. Agoraphobic avoidance is rare in non-clinical samples of adolescents and usually not associated with panic attacks. However, adolescents with agoraphobia symptoms and those with panic disorder have similar clinical correlates consistent with a panic/agoraphobia spectrum model.

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Psychometrics of the Spanish Version of the Screen for Adult Anxiety Related Disorders (SCAARED)

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2021.589422 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Sánchez-Cueva ◽

Yurena Alonso-Esteban ◽

Patricio Sánchez-Cueva ◽

Boris Birmaher ◽

Francisco Alcantud-Marín

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Separation Anxiety ◽

Clinical Sample ◽

Area Under The Curve ◽

Separation Anxiety Disorder ◽

Spanish Version ◽

Clinical Samples ◽

Future Studies ◽

The Stability ◽

Test Retest Reliability

Objectives: To translate and validate the Screen for Adult Anxiety Related Disorders (SCAARED) questionnaire into Spanish.Method: The original SCAARED was translated into Spanish and administered to a non-clinical sample of 131 university students (92.4% women, mean age 22 years) in Valencia, Spain. To assess the concurrent validity of the SCAARED, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale−21(DASS) and the Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were also administered. Test-retest reliability was evaluated 2 weeks after the first administration.Results: The internal consistency of SCAARED was high (α = 0.91) and the stability of the measurement was also high (test-retest 0.81). The results of the Exploratory Factor Analysis showed four factors comparable to the original SCAARED (generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia disorder, panic disorder, and separation anxiety disorder). The Area Under the Curve was excellent (0.88).Conclusions: The Spanish version of the SCAARED showed good psychometric properties comparable to the original SCAARED suggesting that it may be a useful instrument to screen for anxiety disorders in Spanish-speaking adult populations. Future studies are needed to replicate these findings in larger community and clinical samples.

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Overview of Anxiety Disorders

10.2310/im.13019 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jon E Grant

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Panic Disorder ◽

Anxiety Disorders ◽

Separation Anxiety ◽

The United States ◽

Specific Phobia ◽

Separation Anxiety Disorder ◽

Generalized Anxiety ◽

Psychosocial Impairment

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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