Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Under the Expert Eye

  Anxiety is a natural response of the body. Over thousands of years, it has allowed humans to survive. And although we go through episodes of this disorder at all ages, anxiety in children and adolescents involves particular characteristics. Diana Martín, a graduate in psychology and registered in Tenerife, Spain (T-04171), clarifies in the podcast Psicología Contigo that “There are symptoms that are more classic in childhood and adolescence, but anxiety is, in principle, always adaptive.” It’s a fight or flight response that our body triggers when it interprets that something may be dangerous. Is anxiety the same as fear? The…