The Journal
What Is Family Accommodation?
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.
10 Signs Anxiety Is Running Your Family Instead of Your Family Running Anxiety
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.
My Child Refuses Anxiety or OCD Treatment. What Can I Do?
Many parents feel stuck when a child refuses therapy for OCD or anxiety. Learn why treatment resistance happens, how accommodation can maintain anxiety, and how SPACE treatment can help parents support change.
How to Support a Loved One With OCD Without Accidentally Reinforcing It
Supporting someone with OCD can be challenging. Learn how reassurance, accommodation, and participation in compulsions can affect OCD, and how to provide support without reinforcing the disorder.
Is My Child’s Anxiety Running Our Family?
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.
What Is SPACE Treatment? A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Without Reinforcing Anxiety and Avoidance
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.