title: Understanding separation anxiety disorder.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  When children are acutely ill and life is threatened, separation anxiety can develop in parents and children. Separation anxiety has been studied through two traditions--as a normative phenomenon and as a disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comprehensive review of the literature.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyze and evaluate the literature to derive clinical and research implications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Support was found for the development of interventions beyond the developmental stage of early childhood. The need for a family approach was evident.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Dashiff
mesh_terms: D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015995:Prevalence; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012307:Risk Factors