Pediatric Specific Phobia Differential Diagnoses
- Author: William R Yates, MD, MS; Chief Editor: Caroly Pataki, MD more...
Diagnostic Considerations
Psychotic disorder is another diagnosis to consider.
Clustering
Patients can have more than 1 specific phobia, since clustering often occurs. Animal, natural environment, and situational specific phobias tend to cluster; 70% of persons with blood specific phobia also have injection specific phobia.
Differential Diagnoses
- Anxiety Disorder: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Anxiety Disorder: Panic Disorder
- Anxiety Disorder: Separation Anxiety and School Refusal
- Eating Disorder: Anorexia
- Eating Disorder: Bulimia
- Eating Disorder: Pica
- Eating Disorder: Rumination
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children
- Somatoform Disorder: Somatization
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