PSY 505 ASSIGNMENT HELPING MATERIAL

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ASSIGNMENT PSY 505 HELPING MATERIAL

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Specialists can address physical symptoms, identify anxious thoughts, help your child develop coping strategies, and foster problem solving. Professional treatment for separation anxiety disorder may include:

• Talk therapy. Talk therapy provides a safe place for your child to express his or her feelings. Having someone to listen empathetically and guide your child toward understanding his or her anxiety can be powerful treatment.
• Play therapy. The therapeutic use of play is a common and effective way to get kids talking about their feelings.
• Counseling for the family. Family counseling can help your child counteract the thoughts that fuel his or her anxiety, while you as the parent can help your child learn coping skills.
• School-based counseling. This can help a child with separation anxiety disorder explore the social, behavioral, and academic demands of school.
• Medication. Medications may be used to treat severe cases of separation anxiety disorder. It should be used only in conjunction with other therapy.

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Common symptoms of separation anxiety disorder: refusals and sickness

Separation anxiety disorder can get in the way of kids’ normal activities. Children with this disorder often:

• Refuse to go to school. A child with separation anxiety disorder may have an unreasonable fear of school, and will do almost anything to stay home.
• Display reluctance to go to sleep. Separation anxiety disorder may make these children insomniacs, either because of the fear of being alone or due to nightmares about separation.
• Complain of physical sickness like a headache or stomachache. At the time of separation, or before, children with separation disorder often complain they feel ill
• Cling to the caregiver. Children with separation anxiety problems may shadow you around the house or cling to your arm or leg if you attempt to step out.

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Egocentrism: Egocentrism is an inability to see things from another's points of view. A classic Piagetian experiment knows as the mountain task illustrates egocentric thinking. A child would sit on a chair facing a table on which were three large mounds. The experimenter would place of doll on another chair, on the opposite side of the table, and would ask the child to tell or show how the "mountains' looks to the doll. Young children could not
answer the question instead; they persistently described the mountains from their perspective.

Egocentrism, to Piaget, is not selfishness but self-centered understanding, and it is fundamental to
the limited thinking of young children. Egocentrism is a form of cent ration. These children are so
centered on their own point of view that they cannot take in another's view at the same time. Three
year-olds are not as concentric as new-born babies, who cannot distinguish between the universe
and their own bodies; but young children still think that the universe center on them.