Social phobia in children

Introduction to children's social phobia Child social phobia (socialxietydisorder of childhood, SADC) is a common childhood emotional disorder that seriously affects the physical and mental health of children. In an unfamiliar environment, it is too shy, embarrassing, too much attention to your own behavior, or when you enter a new environment, you feel pain and physical discomfort, or crying, not speaking, retreating. As we all know, the degree of decline in the quality of life reflects the extent to which the disease is harmful to humans. The study found that the quality of life of children with mental disorders has very significant differences in cognitive, emotional, family life, peer communication, school life, living environment, self-awareness, depression experience, anxiety experience and normal children. SADC children need more and more comprehensive care and help. basic knowledge The proportion of illness: 0.0005% Susceptible people: children Mode of infection: non-infectious complication:

Child social phobia

a, parenting style Although recent research focuses on social phobia, no matter which type of phobia is related to the way of parenting during psychological growth. For example, excessively strict and dogmatic education will make people's psychological growth process single, making their social understanding and adaptability relatively low, making it difficult to make correct judgments on objective things; excessively rough or oppressive environment will also make people The normal psychological development is distorted, and there are misjudgments or misjudgments to external things.

b. Genetic and personality factors This disease is related to human personality traits. For example, those who are timid and ashamed before the age of 3 are often more prone to social phobia after adulthood. The role of genetic factors in phobia is also receiving increasing attention.

c. Biological factors It has been inferred that patients with phobia may have the possibility of hypersensitivity to postsynaptic 5-HT receptors.

Not due to schizophrenia, mood disorders, mental disorders caused by epilepsy, generalized anxiety disorder.

Child social phobia prevention

Because of this type of disorder, the living environment of the child is considered to play a key role in the pathogenesis. Therefore, prevent and reduce childhood social dysfunction.

Children's social phobia complications Complication

Concurrent with children with autism.

Children's social phobia symptoms Common symptoms Social fear baby lack of security

In an unfamiliar environment, it is too shy, embarrassing, too much attention to your own behavior, or when you enter a new environment, you feel pain and physical discomfort, or crying, not speaking, retreating.

Typical symptoms of children's social phobia

1. In public places, such as kindergartens, playgrounds, parks, shopping malls, relatives, children feel extreme panic and nervousness;

2. In some occasions, children are afraid to communicate face-to-face with their peers and adults, or even if they communicate, they are spent in extreme horror;

3. Children don't dare to face strangers, they don't dare to talk to them, or they are flustered when they see strangers.

Child social phobia check

There is currently no specific laboratory test for this disease. When other conditions, such as infection, occur, laboratory tests show positive results from other conditions.

Diagnostic identification of children's social phobia

diagnosis

It can be diagnosed based on clinical symptoms and laboratory data.

Differential diagnosis

The disease should be differentiated from extensive developmental disorders:

1. Children with this disease have normal social interaction and responsiveness, while children with extensive developmental disorders have no.

2. The child with this disease has an abnormal social reaction at the beginning, which becomes a behavioral characteristic in various occasions. However, if the child is placed in another normal environment that can be given continuous care, there will be a significant improvement. It does not occur in children with extensive developmental disorders.

3. Although children with reactive attachment disorders may have speech and language development impairment, there will be no abnormalities in the nature of autism.

4. Persistence limitations and stereotypes of behavior, interest, and activity patterns are not the symptoms of this disease but autism.

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