If you’ve ever felt anxious before delivering a speech, taking a test or performing on stage, you’re not alone. Most people feel anxious on occasion and it can actually be a good thing. Evolutionarily ...

Predictable routines can help children feel calm and in control. (Cavan Images/Cavan Collection via Getty Images) As a child, I had a great deal of anxiety. If you’ve ever seen me speak in public, ...

Your child is not stuck in fear; they are stuck in thought. When reassurance backfires, anxiety tightens its grip. Here's ...

Separation anxiety in children, often triggered by life changes, is a common fear, not misbehavior. Parents, too, find ...

A new study from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland screened school-age children for anxiety and examined the efficacy of the Master Your Worries programme ...

Anxiety is a family inheritance nobody wants to pass down. Yet anxious parents often watch helplessly as their children develop the same fears, worries, and avoidance patterns they’ve struggled with ...

Anxiety is on the rise among children and adolescents. Studies show that as many as one in eight children may experience significant anxiety. Knowledgeable observers offer a number of reasons. Perhaps ...

Children of anxious parents are not more sensitive In their experiment, the researchers also looked at whether children of parents who themselves suffered from social anxiety were more sensitive to ...

As a child, Trudi Sullivan would become very anxious by changes in her routine. No matter how hard she tried, she could not calm herself when that happened. Many years later, she was diagnosed with ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Public Schools students go back to class on Aug. 18. There will be lots of smiling and first-day-of-school pictures. And for many children, there is a lot of anxiety about ...