Helping Children Overcome Anxiety and/or OCD - Using S.P.A.C.E approach

This presentation will outline the parent-led anxiety treatment programme ‘S.P.A.C.E.’ (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a programme created by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Centre. The programme reduces anxiety in children and adolescents through changing parental responses to anxiety and reducing accommodations parents are making around the anxiety.

Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include:

• Separation anxiety
• Social anxiety
• Generalised anxiety
• Fears and phobias
• Panic disorder and Agoraphobia
• Selective mutism
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

What You Can Take Away from This CPD

Understanding Childhood Anxiety: Learn about the causes and maintenance of anxiety in children and adolescents.

The Role of Parents: Understand how parental responses can reinforce anxiety and how to alter them.

Practical Tools: Discover strategies to reduce overprotectiveness and encourage emotional independence.

Evidence-Based: Explore the scientific backing of S.P.A.C.E. and its effectiveness in treatment.

Presenting: Katrina Batley

When my daughter started Primary School, she was completely silent. She has selective mutism, an anxiety condition. She is prone to anxiety, and anxiety can show up in a range of areas for her.

When we first realised there was a problem, it really took its toll on us as parents. The mental and emotional load was really overwhelming.

But I wasn’t happy to sit back and hope everything got better by itself. I learned the tools, studied the techniques, and helped my child to make wonderful progress in overcoming anxiety. I dedicated myself to helping other parents feel more in control, by knowing what they can do themselves, at home, to support their child.

I was a primary school teacher for almost twenty years, after which I studied/qualified as:

• Master’s degree in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health
• Accredited Goulding method consultant
• Trained provider of the Supportive Parenting of Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) program
• Emotional Freedom Technique
• Certified personal development coach
• Certified mental health coach
• Certified trauma-informed coach

I support parents to learn strategies at home to support their and their child’s emotional wellbeing. Let’s work together, to help you and your child feel better.

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