Test run of a caregivers guide

[omnisemantic1]

Hello everyone,

This is a part of a social influence project ongoing at my college. We're writing papers on relevant problems and also designing brochures and flyers in order to spread awareness and useful information to people, so they're able to recognize and deal with the issues themselves.
My project was on Social Phobia and SAD, so I'd like to invite everyone, but especially those of you who have children, to take a look at the flyer I've prepared and answer the short questionnaire accompanying it. The documents can be viewed and downloaded at:

Flyer - http://www.scribd.com/doc/8696356/Social-Phobia-Flyer?secret_password=aoy7urz1l7kny9okcb6

Questionnaire - http://www.scribd.com/doc/8696406/F...al-Phobia?secret_password=f0x8gy3e45e94u7igto

If you decide to fill in the questionnaire, please send it to the e-mail address provided in my profile. Any suggestions you might have are welcome, so share them in the document. After all, the goal is to improve this as well as possible, in which case it might get picked up by the relevant social services in the Netherlands and exercise some real social influence.

Thank you all in advance.

 

[Helyna]

This is excellent! I'm so glad someone is trying to spread the word. It was very thorough, and I thought the "guide for caregivers" was excellent.
I think there's one problem, though. You say that this can appear in younger children and use 8 years as an example. But it can be present practically from birth! My anxieties started when I was three, and other people who have strong genetic factors were always that way. I've heard of two-year-olds with selective mutism, a kind of severe social phobia that I'm especially interested in spreading the word about (you can find out more at selectivemutism.org). Since you can't have selective mutism until you talk, that's about as young as possible. I'd really like it if you gave a younger age in case this falls into the hands of a parent of a preschooler with social phobia.