The start of school, children going to kindergarten, starting first grade, changing to middle or high school, or beginning college creates anxiety in many ways which can affect the child, teen or college student. Fears of fitting in, making friends, meeting the high academic challenges of high school, or the demands of college being basically […]
Women and Anxiety-March, 2021 Focus
Is Anxiety on the Rise for Women? A recent article from Glamor magazine makes a rather convincing statements regarding women being diagnosed with anxiety disorders more frequently than men, as noted from the article “twice as likely to be diagnosed in women than in men”. But for 40 million Americans, anxiety disorders are debilitating and […]
Children with Anxiety
All children experience anxiety. Anxiety in children is expected and normal at specific times in development. For example, from approximately age 8 months through the preschool years, healthy youngsters may show intense distress (anxiety) at times of separation from their parents or other persons with whom they are close. Young children may have short-lived fears, […]
