“Demand avoidance”—a knee-jerk, defiant reaction to any direction to cooperate with a task or to make a transition—is a phenomenon that I see frequently in my work with families of highly sensitive ...

Avoiding experiences associated with pain can be an adaptive behavior, but generalized avoidance can become problematic, even potentially culminating in disability. Chronic pain can seriously restrict ...

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 ...

Welcome to the third module of LUNA! This week, you will learn more about avoidance and about why avoiding things that cause anxiety will not help your child overcome their fears. You will also learn ...

You jump at the opportunity to do the dishes at a social gatherings so you don’t have to interact with others. You decide not to reach out to a friend you haven’t seen in a while in case they won’t be ...