Sentences with phrase «avoidance of specific situations»

Anxiety disorders are often hereditary and the avoidance of specific situations or objects can be modeled to young children.

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The diagnostic criteria of specific phobia include a marked and persistent fear of the specific object or situation that is excessive or unreasonable, an immediate anxiety response upon exposure to the feared stimulus, which may take the form of a panic attack, recognition that the fear is excessive or unreasonable, avoidance of the anxiety - producing situation, the phobia interferes with normal functioning or causes marked distress.

The SASC - R includes the following three subscales: fear of negative evaluation from peers, social avoidance and distress specific to new situations or unfamiliar peers, and social avoidance and distress experienced more generally in the company of peers.

A temperamental disposition toward the avoidance of novel and uncertain situations together with a set of behaviors that indicate shyness and discomfort in social interactions are comprehensively named childhood shyness, or behavioral inhibition (BI).14 Children with high indexes of shyness - BI are at a heightened risk of developing anxiety disorders, in particular social phobia, 15 and subjects who fall within the BI — social phobia developmental continuum show specific patterns of neurophysiologic responses to pictures of facial expressions.