| Sumario: | Matilda's mother is overbearing and close and does most of the talking for her youngest daughter. Her mother describes Matilda's recent fear of going to school or visiting friends. When the therapist asks to speak to Matilda alone, Matilda reacts instantly with fear and has difficulty being without her mother. Matilda is afraid that if she is alone she may be kidnapped. This training title highlights the major symptoms of Separation Anxiety. Symptoms of Separation Anxiety Disorder may include: inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached as evidenced by three or more of the following: recurrent excessive distress when anticipating or experiencing separation from home or major attachment figures; persistent and excessive worry about losing major attachment figures or about possible harm to them, such as illness, injury, disasters, or death; persistent and excessive worry about experiencing an untoward event (getting lost, being kidnapped, having an accident, becoming ill) that causes separation from a major attachment figure; persistent reluctance or refusal to go out, away form home, to school, to work, or elsewhere because of fear of separation; persistent and excessive fear of or reluctance about being alone or without major attachment figures at home or in other settings; persistent reluctance or refusal to sleep away form home or to go to sleep without being near a major attachment figure; repeated nightmares involving the theme of separation; repeated complaints of physical symptoms (headaches, stomachaches, nausea, vomiting) when separation form major attachment figures occurs or is anticipated.
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