Supportive Parenting for Childhood Anxious Emotions (SPACE)
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is a parent-based treatment program designed to reduce your child’s anxiety by improving your responses. It focuses on decreasing accommodation of your child’s anxiety and increasing supportive, non-intrusive behaviors to foster your child’s independence and resilience.
What does SPACE help with?
Anxiety Disorders: Generalized anxiety disorder, selective mutism, separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Key Components:
Parental Accommodation:
Helps you identify and reduce behaviors that you engage in to help your child avoid anxiety-provoking situations (e.g., offering excessive reassurance, modifying routines, or allowing avoidance).
Supportive Responses:
Trains you to provide support in a way that encourages your child's autonomy and resilience.
Setting Goals:
Works with you to set realistic and achievable goals for reducing accommodation and increasing supportive responses.
Parental Self-Care:
Encourages you to take care of your own emotional and psychological well-being.
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Dr. Denese has therapy openings in Massachusetts and New York.
If you are interested in therapy with Dr. Denese, please schedule a free 15-minute consultation call.
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