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Separation Anxiety Treatment

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Separation Anxiety Disorder is characterised by excessive fear or anxiety about separation from key attachment figures (usually parents or caregivers) that is developmentally inappropriate and causes significant distress or impairment.

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Separation anxiety treatment for children at Camali Clinic Dubai
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Separation Anxiety Treatment

While some separation anxiety is normal in very young children, when it persists beyond expected developmental stages or becomes severely disruptive, specialist support is needed.

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Symptoms may include

  • Excessive distress when separated from home or attachment figures – or when separation is anticipated
  • Persistent and excessive worry about losing attachment figures, or about harm coming to them
  • Refusal to go to school, sleep away from home, or be left without the attachment figure
  • Nightmares about separation; repeated physical complaints (headaches, stomach aches) on school mornings
  • Clingy behaviour, shadowing the parent around the house, or inability to stay in a room alone
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Treatment Approaches

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with graduated exposure – the child is gradually and systematically exposed to separation, building confidence and tolerance
  • Parent coaching – helping parents manage their own anxiety around separation and respond in ways that support independence
  • School collaboration – working with the school to create a graded return-to-school plan where school refusal is present
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Mild separation anxiety is developmentally normal up to around age 3–4. When it persists beyond this, intensifies, or causes school refusal or significant daily disruption, it warrants specialist assessment.

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