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July 1999
CAUSES OF ANXIETY OR FEAR AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
0 - 6 months |
Loss of support, loud noises |
7 - 12 months |
Strangers, heights; sudden, unexpected and looming objects |
1 year |
Separation from parents; toilet, injury, strangers |
2 years |
A multitude of sources, including loud noises (vacuum cleaners, sirens/alarms, trucks, and thunder) animals (e.g., large dogs), darks rooms, separation from parents, large objects or machines, change in person environment, strange peers |
3 years |
Masks, dark, animals, separation from parents |
4 years |
Separation from parents, animals, dark, noises (including at night) |
5 years |
Animals, "bad" people, dark, separation from parent bodily harm |
6 years |
Supernatural beings(e.g., ghosts, witches, "Darth Vader"), bodily injuries, thunder and lightning, dark, sleeping or staying alone, separation from parent |
7-8 years |
Supernatural beings, dark, media events (e.g., news reports on the threat of nuclear war or child kidnapping), staying alone, bodily injury |
9-12 years |
Tests and examinations in school, school performance, bodily injury, physical appearance, thunder and lightning, death, dark |
Teens |
Social performance, sexuality |
From Treating Children's Fears and Phobia: A Behavioral Approach, by R. Morris and T. Kratochwill - Pergamon Press 1983
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