Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children

Accommodations are changes that parents and other family members make to their own behaviors to help a child avoid or alleviate anxiety. Parental accommodation is a key aspect of child anxiety and has a major impact on course, severity of symptoms and impairment, family distress, and treatment outcomes. Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety in Children provides guidance to clinicians on how to help parents identify and monitor accommodation, create treatment plans for reducing accommodation, and communicate these plans to their children. It also includes transcripts and clinical illustrations, as well as guidance on how to discuss accommodation with both parents and children.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 176 pages
\n Publication date: 03 October 2019
\n Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
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Accommodations are modifications that parents and other family members make to their own behaviors to help a child avoid or alleviate anxiety. Parental accommodation is a critical factor in child anxiety and has a significant impact on the course, severity, and impairment of symptoms, family distress, and treatment outcomes. Therefore, the gradual removal of accommodation by parents and loved ones is an important target of anxiety treatment for children.

Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety in Children is a valuable resource for clinicians who wish to address accommodation within the context of a broader treatment strategy for anxious children or as a stand-alone treatment. The book provides clinicians with practical guidance on how to help parents identify and monitor accommodation, create treatment plans for reducing accommodation, and effectively communicate these plans to their children. It also helps clinicians address disruptive child responses to reduced accommodation, work with parents who struggle to cooperate, and address threats of self-harm.

The book includes transcripts and rich clinical illustrations to enhance understanding and application of the material. It also includes guidance on discussing accommodation with both parents and children, using easily understood metaphors to approach the topic with empathy and without judgment.

Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety in Children is an essential resource for psychologists, counselors, and clinical social workers who treat anxious children. By addressing accommodation, clinicians can help children overcome anxiety and improve their overall well-being.

\n Weight: 270g\n
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780190869984\n \n