Jasinski's The Impact Of Anxiety In Elementary-Aged Children

Anxiety is a scary thing to deal with, especially for a child. Four percent of children in the United States will be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder during their childhood. Sometimes anxiety is just part of growing up, children have anxiety on their first day of school, teenagers with have anxiety while picking out an outfit to wear to school. But high levels of anxiety is not healthy and will have a negative impact on the child. Many children with high levels of anxiety will struggle making friends, not raise their hand in class or participate in school or social activities. Along with social issues, many children with anxiety will physical symptoms like headaches, stomachaches, and an overall feeling of being constantly tired. Without getting help for anxiety, children are at a higher risk of becoming an addicts, developing an eating disorder, or having depression. Many children will go through a phase where they are more anxious and that is not detrimental to their development, when it becomes a chronic problem that’s when it interferes with their wellbeing. Since there are so many negative effects of childhood anxiety researchers are trying to figure out a cause and ultimately a way to prevent
She addressed these three questions in her paper. “(1) What are the effects of divorce on anxiety levels in elementary-aged children? (2) What factors impact the degree of anxiety experienced in children from divorced families? (3) What types of interventions can parents use to help alleviate anxiety in children throughout the divorce process?”(Faith Jasinski, 2003) Each one of her research questions could have created enough data to do her own paper but all together had an incredible amount of valuable