A. Fear of social situations where they might be judged, observed, or must perform in front of others
B.Fear that they will be embarrassed and rejected
C. The social situations almost always provoke fear or anxiety
expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, clinging, shrinking, or failing to socially speak
D. Social situations avoided or endured with intense anxiety
E. Fear or anxiety is out of proportion
F. Fear/ anxiety/ avoidance lasts 6 months or longer, usually
G. Anxiety causes setbacks in functioning
H. Not attributable to any substance
I. Not another mental disorder for sure
J. Fear/ anxiety unrelated if the person has medical conditions
Child can speak but refuses to speak or speaks quietly, caused by fear or embarrassment
Can be limited to performance situations only
Treatment: exposure, knowledge through experience
FEARS
Annotations:
Side note: you are most likely to perform well if you are not thinking about others watching you, it was just automatic
Reading aloud
Performance activities
Eating with others
Etc, but all this stuff happens all the time
SOURCE --> inhibition system
Over-controlling/protective parents
Focus on cognitive and behavioral symptoms!
Panic Disorder
DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
Panic attacks reach their peak within 10 mins
4 plus symptoms occur
Heart irregularities, sweating, trembling, can't breath, chest pain, nausea, dizzy or light-headed, chills/heat flashes, numbness/tingling, feels surreal, fear of losing control or dying
And one of these two happens for the next month or more
Fear of 2+ of these
Public transportation
Open spaces
Enclosed spaces
Standing in line / crowds
Being away from home alone
Must be able to escape or be helped in a situation, in case they have a panic attack