Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety In Children

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For clinicians treating children who have anxiety, this trendsetting book offers guidelines, illustrative dialogues, and vignettes to support addressing parents' accommodation behaviors and children's anxiety interactively. * S.M. Valente, UCLA; Department of Veterans Affairs, CHOICE * It's all about accommodation, and Lebowitz does an impressive job describing (a) accommodation and all its feature and (b) the application of strategies designed to reduce parent accommodation. Unburdened by excessive citations, yet rich with case descriptions, this well-informed and readable work recognizes that prior parent interventions for child anxiety were typically added-on to child treatment, rather than being an independent stand-alone approach. Lebowitz provides an excellent resource for those wanting to learn about changing parent accommodation to favorably impact child anxiety and OCD. * Philip C. Kendall, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished University Professor, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple University * Eli Lebowitz scores big with this innovative, highly readable, and practical guide for therapists who work with anxious children and their families. Unlike many standard child-focused treatments for anxious children, this approach is oriented towards working primarily with and through parents who inadvertently or otherwise accommodate the very fears and anxieties they wish to change in their children. This is not to say the parents cause the fear and anxiety; rather, and most importantly, it acknowledges the role that parents play in accommodating and perhaps maintaining these fears and anxieties... Here, Lebowitz presents us with a developmentally-sensitive, contextually-informed, and evidence-based approach which will help us address the weaknesses in our extant approaches. It is a volume whose time has surely come. * Thomas H. Ollendick, PhD, University Distinguished Professor, Director, Child Study Center, Virginia Tech *