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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone up thread recommended SPACE therapy and that’s exactly what was recommended for our anxious child. I haven’t started it yet but I’m currently reading Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety and OCD (a book that outlines the ideas behind SPACE) and it’s been helpful so far.[/quote]

My child is extremely anxious and I had a lot of hope that SPACE would be helpful.  We couldn't really afford the many thousands of dollars that the official program costs locally but I read the book that it's based on.  It seems to me that it's really for specific types of phobias: social anxiety, situational anxiety, etc.  My child has none of those.  She has generalized anxiety disorder.  So at night she'll feel a sense of terror but she can't describe what it's even about.   You can't really do exposure therapy for that.  Unless I'm misunderstanding the program, I don't see how it works for kids who have unspecific feelings that are very strong, but have no phobias about normal life situations.  Has anyone seen SPACE work for non-specific anxiety for a kid who participates in daily life just fine but feels fear and dread every night?[/quote]

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