Help Your Child Thrive. One Step at a Time.
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) is a parent-based treatment program developed by Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. The program includes psychoeducation about anxiety disorders and about ways in which parents can help alleviate their children’s symptoms and enhance their functioning. The program also involves important practical steps such as identifying ways in which parents can modify their own behavior to help their child, as well as specific tools and techniques on how to implement the treatment at home. The main changes that parents learn to make are to introduce or increase supportive responses to the manifestations of their child’s anxiety, and to reduce accommodations they have been making to their child’s symptoms.

