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Fear of AIDS: the Impact of Public Anxiety in Young People

  • C. Lewin and R. J. W. Williams
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Two young adolescents are reported in whom fears of contracting AIDS were a prominent part of their clinical presentation. Public anxiety, specific developmental vulnerability, and exposure to the media information campaign about HIV infection and AIDS are discussed as factors in the genesis and precipitation of emotional disorder in these youngsters.

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∗ Department of Family Psychiatry, Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children, St Michael's Hill, Bristol, BS2 8BJ
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    Jones, Mairwen K Wootton, Bethany M Vaccaro, Lisa D and Menzies, Ross G 2012. The impact of climate change on obsessive compulsive checking concerns. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 46, Issue. 3, p. 265.
    McEvedy, Christopher J. and Basquille, Justin 1997. BSE, public anxiety and private neurosis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Vol. 42, Issue. 5, p. 485.
    FISMAN, SANDRA N. and WALSH, LISA 1994. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Fear of AIDS Contamination in Childhood. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 33, Issue. 3, p. 349.
    Riskind, John H and Maddux, James E. 1994. Loomingness and the Fear of AIDS: Perceptions of Motion and Menace. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 24, Issue. 5, p. 432.
    Davey, T. and Green, J. 1991. The worried well: Ten years of a new face for an old problem. AIDS Care, Vol. 3, Issue. 3, p. 289.
    Wagner, Karen Dineen and Sullivan, Margaret A. 1991. Fear of AIDS related to development of obsessive-compulsive disorder in a child. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 30, Issue. 5, p. 740.
    Arrindell, Willem A Ross, Michael W Robert Bridges, K van Hout, Wiljo Hofman, Annet and Sanderman, Robbert 1989. Fear of aids: Are there replicable, invariant questionnaire dimensions?. Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy, Vol. 11, Issue. 2, p. 69.
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