Together, we identify the
various barriers to love and your cycles of connection & disconnection and then move forward with learning new relational skills or «
tools» to create relational safety, deepen your
emotional connections and create a life worth living.
Significant advances have been made in assessment methods and age - appropriate diagnostic criteria for
emotional disorders in young children.29 - 31 Differentiation between symptoms of individual anxiety disorders (e.g., separation anxiety, generalized anxiety) has been found as early as two years of age.6 One novel assessment
tool for children aged 3 - 5, the Preschool Anxiety Scale — Revised, captures these
various dimensions of anxiety symptoms.32 In addition, attentional bias to threat has been identified as a possible candidate for assessment of risk for anxiety disorders.33