The child who is experiencing anxiety may develop overanxious disorder of childhood. Childhood includes adolescence.
Anxiety feels bad. Adolescents worry more than parents realize. They may act indifferent, bold, or even brazen. They can be caustic with words and insulting in their attitude. Sometimes adults make assumptions that certain behaviors mean certain things. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t.
I work with many teenagers. It is one of my favorite populations. I like the energy of a teenager. I like their openness to new things, as this will be useful in counseling. They are frequently quite open to looking at things of an emotional nature from anothers’ point of view.
Just because a teen acts angry, insulting, indifferent, or apathetic doesn’t mean this is the complete story.
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Donna
3:24 pm on
December 28th, 2011It’s so east to overlook anxiety in children, so thank you so much for this article, Nanette. This is great advice. The following link also has some great techniques for dealing with anxiety in children. Hope it may help someone in some way: http://www.onlineceucredit.com/ceus-online/ax-anxiety/continuing-education.html
So interesting to read your impressions of the Scott Peterson case. I write news headlines for radio in Southern California and am a true crime and police/lawyer novel fan, and I did not become interested in the case until I began reading the books about it discovered the extensive problems with tampered and covered-up evidence–evidence exonerating Peterson. I wrote a blog about it, which is linked.
A major difficulty for television viewers is that they don’t see what happens off-camera, which is a lot different from what happens on-camera. Just try it yourself—take out a video camera at a party and watch the behavior change. Professional TV is a program, a show—and it is aimed at maximizing ratings, so it’s said; however, if you look up Cenk Uygur on Youtube explaining why MSNBC dropped his top-rated program, you’ll see there’s more going on than just ratings. The state of news today is very incomplete, and when it comes to publicity around trials, people become sure they know defendants based on how they appear on TV and what is said about them on TV, by whom. (No opinion on the CA case, though I know people who think she’s innocent, and one who’s sure she’s guilty based on an inside connection…still, didn’t follow it much.)
Thanks for the column!
Nanette Burton Mongelluzzo
10:19 am on
December 29th, 2011Thank you for your comments Cindi. A famous psychologist studied lying and the television program that aired for a couple of years, “Lie to Me” was based on his work with facial expressions. It is quite interesting how people generally assume what an expression means. Again, thank you.
Here’s an entry where I collected photos of Peterson from across the web to show the actual expressions on his face, because they were discussed so much.
http://californiavspeterson.blogspot.com/2010/12/in-search-of-arrogant-smirk.html
Jane Grims
2:44 pm on
January 19th, 2012Cindi,
I just took a look at Petersons pictures. He looks like an outstanding citizen. Its amazing how looks can deceive you.
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