If you are struggling with an anxiety disorder, you have probably been told that avoidance makes things worse. You’ve heard ...

BOSTON — Behavioral avoidance could limit the long-term efficacy of exposure response prevention (ERP), a widely used treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a new analysis shows. Although ...

For children with school anxiety, returning to the classroom can cause real distress. Schneider Children's Medical Center ...

School avoidance (also known as school refusal) is not a recognized mental health diagnosis in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM 5). 1 Yet extensive research on ...

It’s not such a surprise; the two mental health diagnoses have some overlap. For example, part of having OCD is experiencing ...

Anxiety in teens often hides behind irritability, avoidance, and anger. Learn the real signs, what's normal vs. not, and how ...

Credit: Getty Images. Lisa Beauvois, FNP, PMHNP, a nurse practitioner at Johns Hopkins Pediatric Psychiatry, shares insights on school avoidance and refusal. The rates and severity of school avoidance ...