separation anxiety
1separation anxiety — n a form of anxiety that is caused by separation from a significant nurturant figure and typically a parent or from familiar surroundings and that has an onset during childhood or sometimes adolescence * * * a state of distress and fear at the… …
2Separation anxiety disorder — Separation anxiety is a psychological condition in which an individual has excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment (like a father and mother). Background Present in… …
3separation anxiety — noun Date: 1943 a form of anxiety experienced by a young child and caused by separation from a significant nurturant figure and typically a parent or from familiar surroundings …
4separation anxiety — 1. the normal fear and apprehension expressed by infants when removed from their mothers or approached by strangers. 2. any similar reaction in later life caused by separation from familiar surroundings or close friends or family. * * * noun… …
5separation anxiety — 1. the normal fear and apprehension expressed by infants when removed from their mothers or approached by strangers. 2. any similar reaction in later life caused by separation from familiar surroundings or close friends or family. * * * …
6separation anxiety disorder — noun A psychological condition in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment …
7separation anxiety disorder — noun Psychology a condition in which one experiences excessive and developmentally inappropriate anxiety on separation from one s home or from those to whom one is attached …
8separation anxiety disorder — [DSM IV] excessive, prolonged, developmentally inappropriate anxiety and apprehension in a child concerning removal from parents, home, or familiar surroundings …
9separation anxiety — noun a) A psychological condition in some children, characterized by apprehension when separated from a parent b) Similar anxious behaviour of a domestic animal in the absence of its owner …
10separation anxiety — fear of abandonment, person s fear of being neglected by someone close to him which causes this person to act very dependently and to be depressed …
