The fear of moving beyond one's parents.
The problem of separation-individuation is one of the core psychiatric nursing phenomena facing nurses in their clinical work. It comprises five separate but interacting component fears: existential-separation fear, refueling-separation fear, castration fear, aggression fear, and fear of outdoing the sibling. This article explains these fears, suggests five principles to guide nursing interventions, and includes clinical examples.
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D000328:Adult; D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012801:Sibling Relations