Question

Little Jake is strongly bonded to his mother. In fact, he has a difficult time letting her out of his sight. When his mother must leave him in daycare to go to work, the daycare provider calls because Jake is inconsolable. Since being placed in daycare, Jake has also refused to sleep alone. What disorder do Jake's symptoms suggest?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer to the question: What disorder do Jake´s symptoms suggest, would be, separation anxiety disorder.

Explanation:

Anxiety during separation, especially of small children between the ages of months, to 3 years, from their parents, or caregivers, is a normal thing. However, when it generates unusual behavior, really high levels of stress, and especially mood and behavioral changes, then it becomes a pathology known as separation anxiety disorder. Basically, the person, it can be a child, an adolescent, or even an adult, develops an unusally strong attachment to someone, or a place, an whenever he/she is separated from that place, or someone, his/her levels of stress reach really high levels, his/her behavior changes and displays maladaptive reactions. Also, this anxiety does not resolve on its own as time passes, and the only solution for it is for the person, or place, to be back near the person with it. Little Jake has developed that with his mother, to the point that he won´t stay in daycare unless his mother is near him. This is the very definition of SAD (separation anxiety disorder).