PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Fear Conditioning, Classical Conditioning
29 Dec 2016
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An anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental health problems in young people: lifetime prevalence estimates between 8-30, at least 1 child in every elementary school classroom is likely to have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders often go unnoticed despite early onset, high frequency, persistence, and associated problems. Fewer than 20% of young people with anxiety disorders receives services for the problem (compared to the 45-60% of those with conduct or attention disorders that receive services) Anxiety in children used to be considered a mild and transitory disturbance that would fade over time with normal life experiences. We now know that many children who experience anxiety display impairments in their school, social, and family home functioning: they will continue to display anxiety and other problems in adolescence and adulthood. Having an anxiety disorder in childhood or adolescence is also one of the strongest predictors of most other later mental disorders.
