Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
SPACE is an evidence-based treatment modality for parents of children with anxiety, developed by Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center.
During individual Zoom sessions, parents will learn:
- How to focus on changes to their own behavior that will reduce their child’s anxiety.
- To understand how their child’s anxiety impacts the entire family.
- Specific language to respond supportively to their anxious child.
- Strategies for reducing accommodations to their child’s anxiety symptoms.
This program is beneficial for parents who notice their child is struggling with:
- Separation anxiety
- Social anxiety
- Generalized anxiety
- Fears & phobias
- Panic disorder & Agoraphobia
- Selective mutism
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
The cost of this program is $36 per individual session.
If you are interested in offering this program to your community, please call or email your WJCS social worker to discuss further. Brenda Haas; [email protected], Ellen Weisberg; [email protected], Jen Schmelkin; [email protected].