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The SPACE Program
Learn about SPACE treatment here with information from the SPACE Treatment website
Who is SPACE for? Who is the patient?
SPACE aims to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although children do not have to attend SPACE sessions - they are the patients! When SPACE treatment is successful children feel less anxious and function better following treatment.
Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include:
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Separation anxiety
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Social anxiety
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Generalized anxiety
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Fears and phobias
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Panic disorder
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Agoraphobia
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Selective mutism
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Who participates in treatment?
Parents (and other caregivers) participate in SPACE treatment sessions. In most cases the child or adolescent does not need to attend the treatment sessions.
To read more about SPACE and how it works visit the Resources page.
What happens in SPACE treatment?
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 symptoms.