SPACE Intervention
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
Eli Lebowitz, Ph.D. from the Child Study Center at Yale University founded the SPACE program, and research has since been conducted demonstrating the program’s effectiveness. Desert Sage Resource Centers’ own Dr. Coard is among a select group of clinicians who have completed the intensive SPACE Training program and are now able to offer its benefits to the Sierras and beyond. Since this is a parent/caregiver-only method of intervention, our team includes a SPACE-trained psychologists and Psychological intern, social worker interns and social practicum students can deliver these specialized intervention services via telehealth, as well as out of our offices in Reno.
What outcomes can you expect from SPACE?
Parents who participate in SPACE will learn skills and tools to help their child overcome anxiety, OCD, or related problems. 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 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
Pediatric Anxiety deserves effective treatment
Why do we need more treatment options for pediatric anxiety: anxiety is the most common mental health concern for children. Approximately 30% of children will suffer from clinical levels of anxiety sometime throughout their childhood and, depending on the study cited, between 5% and 15% of children suffer from anxiety at any given moment.