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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the evidenced based therapies for anxiety? People always say do your research. But I’m not a scientist. I don’t understand what research papers say. [/quote]

yeah I am sorry, I always throw that term around. For kids, evidence based anxiety therapy will focus on how the adults in their lives can make sure they are not reinforcing anxiety and that they are supporting the child in learning to tolerate anxiety. This takes the form of time-limited skills-based therapy - the best known is called SPACE. https://www.spacetreatment.net/

Non-evidence based therapies and interventions for kids are often very costly because they have no end point and no focused goals, and because they are not effective. That’s things like ill-defined 1:1 talk therapy with a child.

With respect to school interventions, almost all of the interventions people talk about here are expressly non-evidence based and are actually bad for anxiety because the focus on letting the child escape from anxiety. if there is a single hallmark of evidence-based treatment for anxiety, it is that avoidance perpetuates anxiety. So things like letting a child skip oral presentations, extended testing time, letting child skip school and then make up missed assignments … all are very counterproductive. [/quote]

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