SPACE: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
The SPACE program aims to educate parents on changes they can make to their own behavior to make it easier for their child to overcome anxiety, OCD, or related problems. The two main changes that parents learn to make are to “respond more supportively to their anxious child” and to “reduce the accommodations they have been making to the child’s symptoms.” (SPACE)
Is your child excessively fearful or anxious, or suffering from symptoms such as sleep difficulties, anger problems, oppositional behavior, underachievement, social challenges, or complaining of physical problems?
If your child resists the idea of therapy or if you want to help your child without enrolling them in therapy, the SPACE program may be right for you. By devoting eight-to-ten hours to the program, you’ll learn to be able to change your own behavior in order to change your child’s.
To learn more about the SPACE program, please go to their website or contact us with any questions. To learn more about R+A’s SPACE provider, Shelly Burr, LMSW, read her bio here.