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overanxious disorder

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o·ver·anx·ious disorder (vr-ngkshs, -ngshs)
n.
A generalized and persistent anxiety in children or adults that is not the result of separation or recent stress and is characterized by self-consciousness and obsessive concern over past behavior, future events, personal health, and competence in athletics, social, or academic arenas.

overanxious disorder 
former name for an anxiety disorder of childhood or adolescence, now subsumed by generalized anxiety disorder.


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For example, researchers at Griffith University in Nathan, Australia randomly assigned 79 children aged 7-14 years with separation anxiety, overanxious disorder, or social phobia to receive CBT or CBT plus family management, or to be on a waiting list.
Some diagnoses now applied to children -- including identity disorder, overanxious disorder and avoidant disorder -- probably will not make DSM's final cut, the authors say.
This is followed sequentially by separation anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety and overanxious disorder, OCD, and social phobia.
 
 
 
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