Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD by Eli R. Lebowitz

Author:Eli R. Lebowitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

What's a “Good” Accommodation to Reduce?

As you look over the items on your accommodation map, consider these suggestions for picking a good target accommodation to reduce.

Pick Something that Happens Frequently

Choose an accommodation that occurs regularly, rather than infrequently. Choosing something frequent will give you many opportunities to practice “not accommodating” and will give your child many chances to experience “overcoming anxious feelings” on her own. A good target is something that happens multiple times per week, or even per day. You may feel there is another accommodation—something that happens much less often and is a bigger problem for your child. For example, if your child is very anxious during fire drills in school and you have been keeping her out of school on days with fire drills, this might seem like an important target to address. But consider how hard it will be for you to practice this change. Fire drills don’t take place that often, and you have no way to increase their frequency. Unless you are the school principal, you don’t get to decide when the school practices fire drills. Choose something that happens more often, and your child will have many more opportunities to overcome her anxiety. In the end, you may decide that you still need to change your behavior around the fire drills, and that is OK. But you also may realize your child is no longer that anxious about them, because you’ve been able to reduce her anxiety by working on other, more frequent targets.

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