OCDNH is proud to present a virtual SPACE Treatment program for parents of youth/teens with Anxiety, OCD, and related disorders. Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors and OCD Specialists Jeanette Nogales, M.Ed., C.A.G.S. and Phoebe Manchester, MS will lead and facilitate this training.
SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. SPACE was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center and has been tested and found to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials.
Parents who participate in SPACE will learn skills and tools to help their child overcome anxiety, OCD or related problems. The treatment focuses on changes that parents can make to their own behavior, they do not need to make their child change. The two main changes that parents learn to make in SPACE treatment are to respond more supportively to their anxious child and to reduce the accommodations they have been making to the child’s symptoms.
Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include: Separation anxiety, Social anxiety, Generalized anxiety, Fears and phobias, Panic disorder, and Agoraphobia, Selective mutism. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
This is small group parent training, limited to 10 families and will take place over 8 sessions starting late September 2022 (exact dates to be determined):
Session1: Setting the Stage
Session 2: Accommodation Mapping
Session 3: The What if Scenarios
Session 4: Choosing Target and Informing Child
Session 5: Finalizing and formulating plan
Session 6: Reducing Accommodations- Plan in Action
Session 7: Reducing Accommodations cont, Additional Targets
Session 8: Reflections, Relapse Prevention and Wrap up
Participants will receive a digital workbook for use during the sessions and at home.
Sessions will be recorded and made available to participants.
PLEASE NOTE: Payment plans are available (total tuition split into three (3) monthly payments of $200 ea) and there are two (2) scholarship spots available for free or reduced tuition. For information on a payment plan or to apply for a scholarship please email info@ocdnewhampshire.org.
