Describe the ways that parents can contribute to anxiety disorders in their children.

What will be an ideal response?

1. Modeling by overanxious and overprotective parents can sensitize children to the dangers of the outside world, communicate to them a lack of confidence in the child's ability to cope, and reinforce the child's feelings of inadequacy. 2. Indifferent or detached parents or rejecting parents cause the child to not feel adequately supported in mastering essential competencies and gaining a positive self-concept. Either repeated failures from poor learning skills lead to anxiety or withdrawal in the face of a threat, or the child performs adequately but is overly self-critical and feels anxious and devalued because of a self-perception of failure and loss of parental love. GRADING RUBRIC: 10 points total, 5 for each way.