Separation anxiety disorder. Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is a psychological condition in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment (e.g. a parent, grandparents, or siblings). According to the American Psychology Association, separation anxiety disorder is the inappropriate and excessive display of fear and distress when faced with situations of separation from the home or from a specific attachment figure.
The anxiety that is expressed is categorized as being atypical of the expected developmental level and age.[1] The severity of the symptoms ranges from anticipatory uneasiness to full-blown anxiety about separation.[2] SAD may cause significant negative effects within a child's everyday life, as well. Prevalence[edit] Research suggests that 4.1% of children will experience a clinical level of separation anxiety. Classification[edit] Symptoms[edit] Neural correlates[edit] In the academic setting[edit] Are You Highly Sensitive? Copyright, Elaine N. Aron, 1996 Instructions: Answer each question according to the way you personally feel.
Check the box if it is at least somewhat true for you; leave unchecked if it is not very true or not at all true for you. If you are a parent trying to evaluate your child, please use the test “Is Your Child Highly Sensitive?” Scoring: If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive.
But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. If fewer questions are true of you, but extremely true, that might also justify calling you highly sensitive. This is copyrighted material and may not be copied and used without permission. If you wish to use this questionnaire for psychological research, there is a better version on this website for you to use along with suggestions for how best to employ it. Agoraphobia. Agoraphobia (from Greek αγορά, "gathering place"; and φόβος, φοβία, -phobia) is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives certain environments as dangerous or uncomfortable, often due to the environment's vast openness or crowdedness.
These situations include wide-open spaces, as well as uncontrollable social situations such as the possibility of being met in shopping malls, airports, and on bridges. Agoraphobia is defined within the DSM-IV TR as a subset of panic disorder, involving the fear of incurring a panic attack in those environments.[1] In the DSM-5, however, agoraphobia is classified as being separate to panic disorder.[2] The sufferer may go to great lengths to avoid those situations, in severe cases becoming unable to leave their home or safe haven.
Standardized tools such as Panic and Agoraphobia Scale can be used to measure agoraphobia and panic attacks severity and monitor treatment.[10][11] Signs and symptoms[edit] Causes[edit] Test for Dyslexia: 37 Common Symptoms. How Dyslexia Impacts Writing Skills. Dyslexia is considered a language based learning disorder and is thought of as a reading disability but it also impacts a student's ability to write. There is often a large discrepancy between what a student thinks and can tell you orally and what he can write down on paper. Besides frequent spelling errors, some of the ways dyslexia affects writing skills: Essays are written as one paragraph with several long, run-on sentences Using little punctuation, including not capitalizing the first word in a sentence or using end punctuation Odd or no spacing between words Cramming information on the page rather than spreading out In addition, many students with dyslexia show signs of dysgraphia, including having illegible handwriting and taking a long time to form letters and write assignments.
Grammar and Conventions Dyslexic students put much effort into reading individual words and trying to understand the meanings behind the words. Grading students on content rather than grading also helps. Andrew Solomon: Depression, the secret we share. Schizophrenia Slideshow. What Are Causes of Schizophrenia? There is no single cause for schizophrenia. Rather, it is the result of a complex group of genetic, psychological, and environmental factors. Genetically, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have much in common, in that the two disorders share a number of the same risk genes. However, the fact is that both illnesses also have some genetic factors that are unique.
Environmentally, the risks of developing schizophrenia can even occur before birth. For example, the risk of schizophrenia is increased in individuals whose mother had one of certain infections during pregnancy. Difficult life circumstances during childhood, like the early loss of a parent, parental poverty, bullying, witnessing parental violence; emotional, sexual, or physical abuse; physical or emotional neglect; and insecure attachment have been associated with the development of this illness.