According to the Children's Hospital in Virginia, USA, your child may need professional help if he or she:

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  Has frequent nightmares or consistently struggles to fall asleep.
• Frequently acts in an angry or aggressive way, and does not respond to gentle reassurance.
• Refuses to be separated from you, especially if it's at a place he once enjoyed.
• Threatens or tries to hurt himself.
• Restricts his activities due to fear. For example, he avoids the playground, birthday parties and other social events.
• Cannot get terrorism or other age-inappropriate topic out of his mind and talks about it incessantly.
• Has numerous temper tantrums each day, and it can take hours to calm him down.

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