Parent-Based Treatment for Anxiety & OCD

SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions)

Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include:

  • Separation anxiety

  • Social anxiety

  • Generalized anxiety

  • Fears and phobias

  • Panic disorder

  • Selective mutism

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder

SPACE was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center and has been tested and found to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials.

  • SPACE aims to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although children do not have to attend SPACE sessions - they are the patients! When SPACE treatment is successful children feel less anxious and function better following treatment.

  • Parents (and other caregivers) participate in SPACE treatment sessions. In most cases the child or adolescent does not need to attend the treatment sessions.

  • Parents who participate in SPACE will learn skills and tools to help their child overcome anxiety, OCD or related problems.

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