**Zoom Based Training For Licensed Mental Health Providers Only**

One in three children experiences a clinically impairing anxiety disorder during their development, making anxiety the most common mental health concern among youth. Children’s natural tendency to respond to anxiety by looking to parents for protection and regulation, and parents’ powerful motivation to respond to the child’s distress, set the stage for deep entanglement by parents in children’s anxiety problems through the process of family accommodation. Though well intentioned, family accommodation, or the changes parents make to their own behavior to help a child avoid or alleviate anxiety, maintains the child’s symptoms over time and predicts greater severity, more impairment, and worse treatment outcomes. This talk will introduce SPACE, a novel parent-based treatment for childhood and adolescent anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder focused on increasing supportive responses by parents and on reducing family accommodation. For information about SPACE including more in-depth training visit: www.spacetreatment.net and Dr. Lebowitz’ book: Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Child-Anxiety-Scientifically/dp/0190883529

Presenter

Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD, Associate Professor in the Yale Child Study Center, Director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders and author of Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents

Professor Lebowitz studies and treats childhood and adolescent anxiety at the Yale Child Study Center. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on family dynamics and the role of parents in these problems. Dr. Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple funded research projects, and is the author of research papers, books and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. He is also the father of three great boys.

Objectives:

1. Attendees will be able to explain the role of family accommodation in child anxiety
2. Attendees will be able to assess the level of family accommodation in clinical anxiety disorders
3. Attendees will be able to describe the efficacy of parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety
4. Attendees will be able to explain the principles of parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety

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Rathbone & Associates is a sponsor of continuing education credits for psychologists in Maryland under the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Rathbone & Associates maintains responsibility for the program content.