Different perspectives in this multidisciplinary disorder provide confusing results.. As many of you know, my own family has been affected by misophonia. To me, this is an essential area of research. The amount of research on children and families is small in comparison to adult studies. Regardless, families remain desperate for help as we wait for more misophonia awareness among therapists across the multidisciplinary fields that support children and families.
In fact, within an audiology paradigm, Porcaro, Alavi, Gollery, and Danesh conducted a survey of 686 undergraduate instructors to assess their knowledge of misophonia and their willingness to make accommodations for their students.
When we think of avoidance from a psychological paradigm, we often think of it as pathological and serving to maintain a disorder. For example, if one has agoraphobia, the psychologist aims to support the individual in learning how to slowly stop avoiding that which they. Possibly another comparison to consider would be those with misophonia and those with hyperacusis .