What do we mean when we say that a child is anxious? How serious is it and how should we intervene, if at all? As adults we experience anxiety when threatened, for example, by the loss of a loved one, when our personal safety is at risk or when we feel under pressure to achieve or to meet deadlines.
In the same way that these anxieties may be overwhelming to one individual but not to another, children's anxieties are significant to them and need to be recognised as such. How the child presents his anxieties and manages them is crucial in determining how he will be able to overcome them in order to move on developmentally.
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