Play Therapy on Separation Anxiety Children-A Case Report
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2019, Vol 13, Issue 1
Abstract
The symptoms of regarding separation anxiety among children might last to adulthood. Those Children with separation anxiety have a tendency to come through relationship difficulty. In addition, they are inclined to have anxiety disorders, mental health problems so that they suffered from social impairment. Separation anxiety plays an important role in early-child developmental period; that is, separation anxiety should be valued by teachers and care givers. Therefore, the purpose of this essay wants to discuss on the causes of separation anxiety, do play therapy for a child with separation anxiety and shows how to deal with separation anxiety.Children like pulling and dragging with their moms outside the classrooms, in order to they don’t want to leave their moms in preschool period. Children perform such behaviors lasting for only a few days while others might last for weeks. Children will reveal separation anxiety in different level when they enter a new environment, which will influence not only teachers but also parents. Separation anxiety is a developmentally appropriate reaction of distress to separation from the caregiver during infancy and toddler which is central to the child’s psychological development [1,2]. Although most children can adequately learn to regulate their distress reaction to separation, but some children continue anxiety for a long period of time. When symptoms of separation anxiety continue, these behaviors can become highly problematic and debilitating [3]. Separation anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety classification below the age of 12 [4]. It is an antecedent of adult anxiety disorders and linked to depression in young adults [5,6].A four-year-old girl lives with parents and two elder sisters. She lived with her grandparents in the other city before four years old. When she attended to kindergarten, a new environment induced her separation anxiety and non-nutritive sucking habit. Play therapy for her separation anxiety had 8 times. Agenda of 8 times showed as Table 1, at the same time, Table 2 showed the photos of child presentation in the play therapy.
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Fu Rung Yang, I Jen Wang
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- EP ID EP587527
- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2019.13.002357
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