EMOTION

IT IS A STATE OF MENTAL EXCITEMENT CHARACTERISED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL, BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES & ALTERATIONS OF FEELINGS.

CHARACTERISTICS OF EMOTIONS IN A CHILD DISTRESS OR CRY ANGER FEAR ANXIETY PHOBIA

CRY

DISTRESS OR CRY

AT BIRTH: PRIMARY EMOTION PRESENT AT BIRTH WITH VIGOROUS BODY EXPRESSIONS USUALLY DUE TO HUNGER, COLIC OR ANY OTHER INTERNAL CAUSE.

AT SIX MONTHS: I T IS GREATLY REPLACED BY A MILDER EXPRESSION OF FUSSING OR VOCALIZATION.

DURING PRESCHOOL: IT IS SEEN LESS, ONLY FOR REASONS OF PHYSICAL PAIN AS HE IS THWARTED B Y HIS ENVIRONMENT.

DURING SCHOOL YEARS: PRESSURE HELPS HIM TO OUTGROW THE CRYING HABIT WHICH DECREASES RAPIDLY.AFTER THIS TILL FIFTEEN YEARS CRYING OCCURS VERY SELDOM.

YOUNG ADULT: ULTIMATELY IT BECOMES A LIMITED QUIET CRYING IN PRIVATE ONLY FOR REASONS OF GRIEF OR OTHER INTENSE EMOTIONS.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRY

OBSTINATE CRY: SHOWS TEMPER TANTRUM TO THWART DENTAL TREATMENT.LOUD, HIGH PITCHED.SIREN LIKE WAIL.FORM A BELLIGERENT CRY, REPRESENTS CHILDS EXTERNAL RESPONSE TO ANXIETY.

FRIGHTENED CRY: ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENT OF

TEARS.CONVULSIVE BREATH-CATCHING

SOBS.THEY ARE OVER-WHELMED BY THE

SITUATION.

HURT CRY:LOUD, MORE FREQUENTLY.FREQUENTLY ACCOMPANIED BY A WHIMPER.INITIALLY CHILD SHOWS A SINGLE TEAR FROM THE CORNER OF EYE & RUNNING DOWN THE CHILDS CHEEK WITHOUT MAKING ANY SOUND OR RESISTANCE TO TREATMENT PROCEDURE.

COMPENSATORY CRY: NOT A CRY AT ALL.IT IS ASOUND THAT CHILD MAKES TO

DROWN OUT THE NOISE FOR EXAMPLE A DRILL.

CRY IS SLOW, MONOTONE.IT IS A SORT OF COPING MECHANISM

TO UNPLEASANT AUDITORY STIMULI, FINDING HIMSELF UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE SITUATION.

PHOBIA

DEFINITION

A PERSISTENT, EXCESSIVE, UNREASONABLE FEAR OF A SPECIFIC OBJECT, ACTIVITY OR SITUATION THAT RESULTS IN A COMPELLING DESIRE TO AVOID THE DREADED OBJECT.

CHARACTERISTICS

BEING OUT OF PROPORTION TO THE STIMULUS OR SITUATION

CANNOT BE REASONED WITH BEING OUT VOLUNTARY CONTROL PERSISTENT & UNADAPTABLE

TYPES:(BY SHELHAN)

EXOGENOUS (NON-ENDOGENOUS): THIS IS A

PSYCOLOGICALLY AFFECTED GROUP WHO INVOLVE A SITUATION RELATED ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY SYMPTOMSSUCH AS :

MOIST PALMSFLUTTERY STOMACHFINE HAND TREMORSSHAKY INSIDERAPID HEART BEAT

THESE ARE SYMPTOMS WHEN NORMAL INDIVIDUALS ARE STRESSED OR THREATENED.MAIN CAUSE IS IN EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT.HERE THE INDIVIDUAL CAN READILY IDENTIFY THE ETIOLOGICAL AGENT.

ENDOGENOUS THIS ANXIETY IS PRESENT

WITHOUT ANY PROPER WARNING OR PRESENCE OF ANY DETECTABLE STESS SITUATION.CAUSE IS TO BE PRODUCED FROM WITHIN.IT SHOWS SYMPTOMS LIKE:

LIGHT HEADEDNESS OR DIZZINESSDIFFICULTY IN BREATHINGPARAESTHESIAHYPERVENTILATIONCHEST PAINLOSS IN CONTROL

OTHER CAUSES SIMPLE PHOBIA AN ISOLATED FEAR OF

A SINGLE OBJECT OR SITUATION LEADING TO AVOIDANCE OF THE OBJECT OF THE SITUATION.

IRRATIONAL & EXCESSIVE NOT ALWAYS DISABLING.

SOME OF THE PHOBIAS ARE:ACROPHOBIA - HEIGHTAGORAPHABIA - OPEN SPACEARCHNOPHOBIA - SPIDERANTHROPOPHOBIA - PEOPLEAQUAPHOBIA - WATERASTRAPHOBIA - LIGHTENINGCLAUSTROPHOBIA - CLOSED SPACECYNOPHOBIA - DOGZOOPHOBIA - ANIMALSNYCLOPHOBIA - DARKNESSPYROPHOBIA - FIREXENOPHOBIA - STRANGER

SITUATIONAL PHOBIA IS POPULARLY KNOWN AS

AFEAR OF OPEN SPACE, BUT HAS WIDER IMPLICATIONS.USUALLY REFERS TO A CLUSTER OF COMPLAINTS.IN ADDITION TO OPEN OR CROWDED PLACES THEY ALSO FEAR PUBLIC TRANSPORT , BRIDGES , TUNNELS, BEING ALONE AT HOME OR BEING AWAY FROM HOME.

CHARACTERISTICS:DIZZINESSLOSS OF BLADDER OR BOWEL CONTROLCARDIAC DISTRESS

PHOBIA IN CHILDHOOD

MOST COMMON - FEAR OF ANIMALS. USUALLY SEEN AT THE AGE OF TWO

TO FOUR YEARS & IS GONE BEFORE THE AGE OF TEN YEARS.

ANOTHER COMMON PHOBIA IS OF DARKNESSS, A FEAR EXPERIENCED BETWEEN FOUR TO SIX YEARS OF AGE.THIS IS MOSTLY DUE TO IMAGINATION OF CHILD AS TO VARIOUS CREATURES LURKING OUT IN THE DARK.

SCHOOL PHOBIA: AN EXAGGERATED FEAR OF ATTENDING SCHOOL & OCCURS AROUND AGE OF ELEVEN TO TWELVE YEARS.A FEAR OF VARIOUS ACTIVITIES CONNECTED TO SCHOOL SUCH AS NEW FACES & CHALLENGES, FEAR OF LEAVING HOME.

IN TWELVE YEAR CHILD, PREVIOUS AVERSIVE DENTAL EXPERIENCES ARE NORE RELATED TO DENTAL PHOBIA.

AT ADOLESCENT PERIOD MOST CHILDREN OUTGROW THEIR FEAR.

TWO PHOBIAS COMMONLY SEEN:FEAR OF BLUSHING, FEAR OF BEING LOOKED AT.