Is treatment for childhood phobia effective?

When your baby develops a phobia, you must actively and steadily adjust the situation to avoid affecting the child's physical and mental growth in the future. Children with phobias should be guided, and parents should change their educational methods and the child's environment, including adjusting their child's psychological problems in daily life.

Children's social phobia refers to children's fear, anxiety and avoidance behaviors towards new environments or strangers.

The scientific and clinical manifestations of social phobia in children are: being overly shy and embarrassed in unfamiliar environments, paying too much attention to one's own behavior, or feeling pain and physical discomfort or crying, silence and withdrawal when entering a new environment.

General treatment method: Comprehensive treatment is adopted, mainly family therapy and behavioral therapy.

Family therapy includes:

①Change the parenting style of parents;

② Solve the psychological problems of parents themselves;

③Change the child’s growth environment.

Behavioral therapy - steps of systematic desensitization therapy:

① Parents should accompany their children to meet strangers, especially children of the same age, from strangers to acquaintances to familiarity, so as to expand the scope of communication and reduce fear and anxiety when communicating with others;

②Use toys and books to attract other children to actively interact with him, so that the child can interact independently and passively;

③ Encourage children to actively interact with relatively familiar children and increase the number of interactions;

④ Through a lot of interpersonal communication learning and training, self-confidence is enhanced, and one can take the initiative to interact with other children, and anxiety and tension disappear when facing unfamiliar environments.