Separation Anxiety – Young Child

Separation anxiety in young children is very common, in fact it is more common for a young child to have separation anxiety than it is for a child to never experience separation anxiety. Separation anxiety in young children usually will occur between the ages of eight months and three years old, and a normal separation anxiety attack can last up to four minutes.

Separation Anxiety  – Young Child Development

Separation anxiety generally peaks around one to two years of age, at this point a child’s crying and clinging usually is caused by two things. First, the child may cry when the parent leaves because they fear that they will never see the parent again. The second cause of separation anxiety in a young child is the return of the parent. This is a cause of anxiety simply because it reminds the child of the feeling they had when the parent left.

Also may walk or crawl away, and then become anxious do to the separation that they have caused, this occurs less often, but is still a cause of separation anxiety – young child.

Separation Anxiety – Young Child

What to do if the symptoms wont go away

A small fraction of separation anxiety in young children will continue until it is classified as child separation anxiety disorder. If this seems to be the case then you should look into treatment for child separation anxiety disorder 

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