![]() In SPACE, the parents learned to reduce their accommodations, while still supporting and acknowledging the difficulties their children were facing. In the study, they randomly assigned children diagnosed with anxiety disorders to receive cognitive-behavioral therapy, and other kids not to have therapy but for their parents to participate in something called “Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions” or SPACE. These accommodations are well-intentioned but tend to lead to more anxiety over time and to greater impairment for both the child and the family overall.” ![]() “Every child anxiety symptom is likely to have a matching accommodation on the part of the parents. “There are really endless possible examples,” Lebowitz says. These over-accommodations could include answering a question reassuringly from a worried child over and over, speaking up for a kid who is socially anxious, taking part in elaborate nighttime rituals, or taking a kid to unnecessary doctor’s appointments because they think they’re sick. “Children naturally rely on parents when they are feeling scared and parents naturally want to protect their children and to help them to be safe and to feel good,” says Eli Lebowitz, the associate director of the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program at the Yale Child Study Center and first author of the study. ![]() In a new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry, researchers found that offering treatment to parents of kids with anxiety disorders was just as helpful as treating the kids themselves-by helping them cool it on certain behaviors. And what about when kids are younger? Having parents that over-accommodate could be perpetuating pre-existing anxiety disorders. ![]()
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2/23/2024 11:07:25 pm
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6/25/2024 12:43:31 am
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