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Kaynaz Nasseri,Psychotherapist in Los Angeles offering counselling for depression,anxiety,stress management,marriage problem,unresolved childhood issues. |
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Parents often wonder if their children with anxiety will outgrow their anxiety or if they will get worse over time. Some anxious children, if inspired to face their fears, develop coping skills on their own as they mature. In that sense, they do surmount their fears. On the other hand, children with anxiety that avoid their fears can become quite handicapped by them. With prolonged aversion of age-appropriate activities, important skills are lost and the children with anxiety become increasingly symbiotic on the few people to whom they relate. Often, family conflicts result due to poor coping skills. With increased family conflict and lowered ability to keep up at school and with peers, their self-esteem plummets.
Fortunately, most children with anxiety can surmount their fears by gradually facing them. Each time a feared situation is faced, the child becomes a little less responsive to it. After a child is repeatedly exposed to the dreaded situation and is helped to successfully master his or her anxiety, the fight-or-flight reaction to that situation will disappear .
Over a lifetime, anxiety tends to come and go in those people who are predisposed to it. Exacerbations tend to happen when supports are lost or a new stressor is faced. For example, the expectation for children to behave more self-supportingly at adolescence can be difficult for a sensitive child who has previously relied a great deal on parental support. However, for a child that has learned contending skills, this difficulty is not a cause for despair. Instead, it is a signal that previously learned coping skills need to be reviewed, and a few new ones may need to be added. Each time a new situation is mastered, confidence builds, allowing the child to face new challenges and live a productive, fulfilling life.
Deciding on the best method for inspiring your child with anxiety to face what is feared may require some thought. As a rule, whatever works and does not harm is best. If your child lacks the skills needed to face what is feared, some training by a psychologist in those skills may be needed before exposing the child to what is feared. For example, a chronically shy child that for years has not communicated with friends may lack the social skills to do so. Once the necessary skills have been taught, your child must face what is feared through repeated exposures to it.
About Author
Kaynaz Nasseri is a psychology-therapist specializing in child anxiety. Her psycho-therapy practice is located in Newport Beach, but she helps patients that visit her from all of Southern California, including Orange County, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
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