单词 | separation anxiety |
释义 | separation anxietyseparation anxietyseparation anxietyseparation anxietyanxiety[ang-zi´ĭ-te]Anxiety may be rational, such as the anxiety about doing well in a new job, about one's own or someone else's illness, about passing an examination, or about moving to a new community. People also feel realistic anxiety about world dangers, such as the possibility of war, and about social and economic changes that may affect their livelihood or way of living. Most persons find healthy ways to deal with their normal quota of anxiety. Factors that can precipitate an attack of anxiety include any pathophysiological event that interferes with satisfaction of the basic human physiological needs. Situational factors include actual or perceived threat to self-concept, loss of significant others, threat to biological integrity, change in environment, change in socioeconomic status, and transmission of another person's anxiety to the individual. Other etiologic factors are associated with a threat to completion of developmental tasks at various life stages, for example, a threat to an adolescent in the completion of developmental tasks associated with sexual development, peer relationships, and independence. Interventions. Measures to assist the individuals suffering from anxiety are aimed at helping them recognize their anxiety and their usual means of coping with it, and providing alternate, more healthful coping mechanisms that give a sense of physiological and psychological comfort. People with anxiety disorders experience both the subjective emotion and various physical manifestations resulting from muscular tension and autonomic nervous system activity. This can produce a variety of symptoms, including sweating, dizziness, shortness of breath, insomnia, loss of appetite, and palpitations. The source of the anxiety lies in unconscious fears, unresolved conflicts, forbidden impulses, or threatening memories. Symptoms are often triggered by an apparently harmless stimulus that the patient unconsciously links with a deeply buried, anxiety-producing experience. Chronic anxiety can lead to various somatic alterations. The onset of anxiety may be gradual or sudden. Some persons experience incapacitating acute anxiety (as in panic disorder) while others manifest their anxiety through avoidant behavior patterns (phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder). Anxiety disorders include: panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and substance-induced anxiety disorder. sep·a·ra·tion anx·i·e·tyseparation anxietyseparation anxietyA normal developmental stage—occurring between 6–8 months and 10–14 months—during which an infant experiences apprehension, uncertainty and discomfort when faced with anticipated or actual separation from a primary care giver, mother or parent-surrogate. SA wanes by age 2, when toddlers begin to trust that their parents will return; if unresolved in childhood (separation anxiety disorder), it can reappear whenever one is in an unfamiliar situations—e.g., hospitals, illness, pain—or around unfamiliar people.separation anxietyPediatrics A normal developmental stage–between 6-8 months and 10-14 months–during which an infant experiences apprehension, uncertainty, discomfort when faced with anticipated or actual separation from a 1º care giver, mother or parent-surrogate; SA wanes by age 2, when toddlers begin to trust that their parents will return; SA reappears whenever one is in an unfamiliar situations–eg, hospitals, illness, pain, or unfamiliar peoplesep·a·ra·tion anx·i·ety(sep'ăr-ā'shŭn ang-zī'ĕ-tē)separation anxietyExcessive and inappropriate levels of anxiety experienced by children during separation, or the threat of separation, from a parent or from a person in loco parentis. |
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