The mental health professions are greatly challenged by sufferers of avoidant personality. Most sufferers avoid treatment. This has resulted in a void of developing productive treatment strategies. A vast majority of mental health professionals who have experience with avoidant personality disorder believe it’s not resolvable. Having worked with over 10,000 patient with avoidant characteristics of […]

In most cases anxiety or fear on the part of the child or adolescent who is experiencing school refusal is obvious. What may not be so obvious is the obsessive and overwhelming worry of the sufferer. Be clear anxiety is fear. When anxiety results in avoidance of the threating scenario a phobia is present. This […]