TREATMENT
APPROACHES
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)
While ERP is often the go-to for OCD & anxiety, sometimes children and adolescents are unable or unwilling to engage in treatment. In those situations, it can be more effective to switch treatment approaches and work with the parents and family to remove accommodations that have been maintaining OCD symptoms rather than having the child make these changes directly. SPACE was developed by Eli Lebowitz at Yale University, and it has been shown to be an effective alternative to working directly with children struggling with OCD or anxiety.