Associate Professor Yale Child Study Center New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Abstract Body SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) is increasingly recognized and implemented as a parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety and related disorders. This talk will present data from two never-reported randomized controlled trials of SPACE, comparing it with parent-based and child-based comparator treatments. Neuroimaging was used before and after treatment to investigate brain based changes and neurobiological markers of treatment response Data from both trials add to a growing body of knowledge supporting the efficacy of SPACE. Neuroimaging data indicate significant changes from before to after treatment and suggest that reducing parental accommodation of child anxiety symptoms in SPACE leads to increased self regulation and decreased dependence on parents for engaging regulatory circuitry.
Future directions and novel developments using SPACE-based interventions will be discussed.
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