During this period, adolescents suffer from various forms of problems / dysfunctions and conflicts, which ultimately impair
normal psychosocial development aggravating psychosocial dysfunction.
The «practice of clinical social work» is defined as the use of scientific and applied knowledge, theories, and methods for the purpose of describing, preventing, evaluating, and treating individual, couple, marital, family, or group behavior, based on the person - in - situation perspective of
psychosocial development,
normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, unconscious motivation, interpersonal relationships, environmental stress, differential assessment, differential planning, and data gathering.
Anxiety is an emotional disorder involving the experience of fear and danger that is either irrational and / or disproportionate to the perceived threat and has a negative impact on one or more areas of children's
normal functioning and / or
psychosocial development (e.g., Fonseca and Perrin, 2011).