Helping your child with separation anxiety disorder
Helping your child with separation anxiety disorder

Summary/Abstract: One of the more frustrating and confusing dilemmas of parenthood occurs when children’s path towards independence is thwarted by separation issues. Fears, anxiety, or apprehension over some dreaded experience grips children’s will, interfering with their ability to assume the normal expectations for their age. Sleeping by themselves, sleepovers at a friend’s house sleep away camps, or other opportunities that entail overnights away from home, are passed up. Parents vacillate between worry and exasperation as they watch their children persistently avoid the steps that are so important to future emotional independence.

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