Parent Groups
Selective Mutism Parent Group
SM Parent group is the foundational learning space for parents of children with selective mutism. Here you will deep dive into selective mutism, PCIT for SM skills, important principles in treating SM, and SPACE tools to support you from an anxiety perspective. In addition, we dive into social (language) pragmatics and find the overlapping themes to utilize our best skills. Parents leave group empowered and well equipped to apply their new skills in the community.
Parents love this group! In addition to it being a great learning group, parents enjoy connecting with others who have a similar experience in parenting.
7 weeks in duration
Group typically fills and occurs 3-4 times per year
SPACE Group
SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. SPACE was developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz and found to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials.
SPACE aims to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although children do not have to attend SPACE sessions - they are the patients! When SPACE treatment is successful children feel less anxious and function better following treatment.
Some of the main anxiety related problems treated with SPACE:
Separation anxiety
Social anxiety
Generalized anxiety
Fears and phobias
Panic disorder and Agoraphobia
Selective mutism
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Picky Eating (ARFID)
Originally, SPACE was developed to support families 1:1 and it has since been applied in group contexts to support access to treatment.