Episode 77: The SPACE Program, A New Treatment Approach for Childhood Anxiety

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My guest this week is Dr.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Yaara Shimshoni, an <strong>associate research scientist at Yale School of Medicine</strong> specializing in research on <strong>anxiety disorders in children and new treatment approaches involving parents.</strong> Dr. Shimshoni collaborates with Dr. Eli Lebowitz, at the Yale Child Study Center, on developing and researching <strong>the SPACE Program for improving childhood anxiety.   </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Dr. Shimshoni and I discuss the SPACE program, a new treatment approach for childhood anxiety. SPACE works closely with parents by targeting and <strong>slowly eliminating family accommodations</strong> that have been made specifically to help alleviate their child’s anxiety. Research shows that parents working to eliminate these accommodations <strong>have effectively helped their children to gain independence managing their anxiety symptoms.</strong> </span></p> <p> </p> <h3>Where to learn more about SPACE and Dr. Yaara Shimshoni ...</h3> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.spacetreatment.net/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPACE Treatment</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Child-Anxiety-Scientifically/dp/0190883529/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=lebowitz+anxiety&qid=1589282883&s=books&sr=1-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD Pre-order</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.spacetreatment.net/space-providers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPACE Providers</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.spacetreatment.net/manual-and-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPACE Resources</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><