#9: Anxious kids? Listen to this. Professor Eli Lebowitz on SPACE, a new parent-based treatment for childhood and adolescent anxiety.

Brain Health with Dr. Nissen

As a listener interested in brain health, you may be thinking about the developing brains of your kids, grandkids, or other young loved ones. It can be difficult when kids we love have excessive anxiety about greeting people, being away from Mom, or even going to school. What can we do about this? Is there anything that can help? Today’s show will answer these questions.

So, stay tuned because, in this episode, you’ll learn about a new way to approach anxiety in children known as supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions (SPACE).

Professor Lebowitz studies and treats childhood and adolescent anxiety and is Director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on cross-generational and familial influences in these disorders. Dr. Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple funded research projects, and is the author of numerous research papers and of books and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. He is also the father of three great boys.

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