About the author -- Family accommodation: how, what, and why -- Introduction to accommodation of child anxiety -- Why parents accommodate -- Theoretical basis and mechanisms of action -- Why accommodation matters : negative impact of parent accommodation -- Reducing accommodation to treat child anxiety -- Dealing with accommodation in child anxiety treatment -- Assessing family accommodation -- Addressing accommodation -- Parental support : an alternative to family accommodation -- Planning how parents will reduce accommodation -- Obstacles to addressing accommodation -- Case examples : addressing family accommodation within child therapy -- Teenager with generalized anxiety disorder -- Child with separation anxiety disorder -- Case examples : addressing family accommodation as stand-alone treatment -- Teenager with social phobia -- Extreme accommodation of a child with ocd and coercive behaviors -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index.
Summary:
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problems of childhood and adolescence. Childhood anxiety impacts not only the anxious child themselves, but also parents and other family members who inevitably find themselves drawn into accommodating the child's symptoms. Parents of anxious children almost universally describe becoming entangled in the child's symptoms and research indicates that many of the efforts made by parents to help an anxious child actually prolong and maintain the anxiety symptoms. This book provides clinicians working with anxious children with practical strategie.
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