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Hello, my name is Katie and I'm here to speak to you about emotional disorders which are specific to childhood. So, to begin with today, we will be talking about social anxiety disorder in childhood which comes under the spectrum of anxiety disorders. So before we move on to discussing about social anxiety disorder, let's take a minute to see what we know about anxiety disorders. Right? So anxiety disorders are a set of disorders characterized by feelings of excessive worry, anxiety and fear which interfere with one's everyday functioning. While there are several disorders under the umbrella term of anxiety disorders. Today we're going to talk about social anxiety disorder, particularly social anxiety disorder in Children. So before we move on to talking about how social anxiety presents in Children, let's take a minute to understand what social anxiety entails. So, individuals with social anxiety disorder of experience fear and anxiety when it comes to social situation such as being in classrooms at family gatherings or public speaking. This is accompanied by the fear of getting judged or criticized by others. To the extent that they may do everything in their power to avoid social situations, individuals with social anxiety are constantly under the impression that they are going to be humiliated or embarrassed by others or that they might end up offending somebody when they're talking to them and this is the fear that keeps them from participating in social situations. So moving on. So while it is generally normal for Children to exhibit some amount of shyness around strangers or other people who they don't know Children with social anxiety disorder. Experience fear that goes beyond what is considered appropriate for that particular situation. Children with this disorder may show a persistent fear or avoidance of strangers. This fear and avoidance may also be present with adults as well as peers along with your Children with social anxiety disorder may also show selective attachment to their primary caregivers or other familiar people. This is to say that they may be overly attached to one of their parents or some of their close family members further their social functioning is also heavily impact impacted by their anxiety. In social situations, Children with social anxiety may be exceedingly self conscious and they may worry constantly about being judged by others. Thoughts such as what if I do something wrong or what if I say something stupid might be present consistently in situations which involve other people. They may also be worried about being judged or criticized by others to such an extent that they may give up on doing things they like and enjoy in order to avoid embarrassment and humiliation. That anxiety may be demonstrated by physical symptoms like sweating, trembling shortness of breath and stomach ache. Anxiety may also be expressed by freezing crying, avoiding eye contact or through temper tantrums. Situations, just speaking in public, eating in public, meeting new people or holding conversations Maybe excessively distressing to Children with social anxiety. These situations may be either avoided, such as refusing to go to school or maybe endured with intense anxiety throughout One striking feature that parents, teachers and other professionals who interact with Children need to look out for is that the anxiety experienced by the child may be completely out of proportion to the actual risk caused by the event, the risk of being negatively evaluated. So at this point it's important to remember that Children may sometimes experience intense anxiety as a response to certain events, such as being bullied at school. In this case, the anxiety will be considered to be appropriate to the situation in a classroom. Children with social anxiety disorder may avoid group work and activities such as reading out loud whether become the center of attention. They may also refrain from participating in class or may not respond when they're called upon. Additionally, they may also hesitate to ask for help which would then further affect the academy performance when it comes to treatment of social anxiety in Children early recognition and treatment is very important so that the development of abnormal behavior patterns can be prevented as the child grows up, treatment for social anxiety can consist of psychotherapy medication or a combination of books, cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT is an effective psychotherapy tool for social anxiety disorder. CBT can help help Children overcome their fears and replace their anxious thought patterns with more healthy and adaptive thought patterns. Social skills training can also be included in the treatment plan to help Children develop and hone their social skills when it comes to medication, medication for social anxiety would be centered around alleviating symptoms of anxiety in Children. All right now, let's go through a case study to understand how social anxiety disorder can present itself and Children. So Sarah is a third grader who repeatedly expresses her refusal to attend school every day. When she gets out of her parents car and starts walking towards the classroom, her legs tremble and her heart begins to race. She feels queasy and wishes that her parents would just take her back home. She enters her classroom quietly and hopes that no one would have noticed her enter because of her tendency to keep to herself and not engage in conversation. Her classmates have gotten used to ignoring her and now do not pay attention to her when she enters the classroom. When her classes start, she worries about getting called on by her teacher and she spends her entire day worrying about what would happen if her teacher did call on her during class, even when she has some difficulty in understanding what the teacher says, she does not communicated to her teachers in the fear that her classmates will ridicule her for having silly doubts on days when they have oral exams, she finds herself in the nurse's room very often because of the uneasiness that she feels and she ends up missing a lot of her class time because of the same, as soon as she gets to her class, she was sad to watch her clock and count the hours until she can go back home. So, in this case study we can see how the are symptoms of social anxiety disorder manifest and Children. So, in Syria's case, we can see how her fear of getting humiliated or being judged by others prevents her from making friends, prevents her from working on her academics, and also from seeking help from her teachers when she really needs it. We can also see that physical symptoms such as her legs trembling and her heart racing are evident when she begins to walk towards her school. So, lastly, we can also see that she tries to actively avoid this situation by constantly refusing to go to school. But when she is made to go to school every day, she endures the entire situation with extreme anxiety and extreme worry and she constantly waits for it to be over. All right. So, this was a basic overview and an introduction into social anxiety disorder in childhood, and I hope it was informative or helpful to you. Next up, we will be discussing separation anxiety disorder in childhood