Addressing Parental Accommodation When Treating Anxiety in Children

ISBN-13: 9780190869984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Eli R. Lebowitz

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD, studies and treats childhood and adolescent anxiety at the Yale School of Medicine, Child Study Center, where he is director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on family dynamics and the role of parents in these disorders.