Have your family’s routines started revolving around your child’s anxiety or OCD? Learn what family accommodation is, why it develops, how it can unintentionally maintain anxiety, and how parents can respond in more helpful ways.

Accommodation occurs when family members change routines, provide reassurance, participate in rituals, or help someone avoid distress in an effort to reduce anxiety. Although accommodation often comes from a place of care, it can unintentionally reinforce anxiety and OCD over time.

Has your child’s anxiety or OCD begun affecting your entire family? Learn the 10 signs that anxiety may be shaping your family’s routines, relationships, and decisions, and how parents can respond in ways that build confidence instead of reinforcing anxiety.

What happens when a child refuses therapy for OCD or anxiety? Learn how SPACE treatment helps parents reduce accommodation, support change, and move treatment forward even when a child isn’t willing to participate.

Is your child’s anxiety beginning to affect your family’s routines, relationships, or daily decisions? Learn how family accommodation develops, why it can unintentionally maintain anxiety and OCD, and how SPACE treatment helps parents respond in supportive, effective ways.

Many parents describe feeling as though they are constantly walking on eggshells. They may find themselves reorganizing routines, avoiding certain situations, or spending large amounts of time trying to prevent distress before it escalates. These efforts come from love and a desire to help. The problem is that some of the things families do to reduce anxiety in the short term can unintentionally strengthen it over time.

SPACE treatment was developed to help families change those patterns.