Parent Program (SPACE)
What is SPACE?
SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-only program meant to train parents to trade their accommodating behaviors (always intervening/taking away their child’s problems) for empowering ones (encouraging independence and resilience in their children).
Some of the anxiety problems treated with SPACE include:
- Separation anxiety
- Social anxiety
- Generalized anxiety
- Fears and phobias
- Panic disorder and agoraphobia
- Selective mutism
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- School refusal behavior
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder or ARFID
What Is ARFID?
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder characterized by an extreme avoidance of certain foods or restrictive eating behaviors. Unlike other eating disorders like anorexia nervosa or bulimia, ARFID is not driven by body image issues. Instead, it stems from a range of factors including sensory sensitivities, fear of choking, or past traumatic experiences related to food.
Unlike selective eating in childhood, ARFID persists and intensifies, leading to nutritional deficiencies and social impairments.
Signs of ARFID
- Aversion to specific textures, colors, or smells
- Lack of appetite
- Fears of vomiting or choking after eating
Failure To Launch (FTL)
The creator of the SPACE program for Failure To Launch (FTL), Dr. Eli Lebowitz, said that to avoid inducing feelings of shame in the young adults who fail to launch, we should see transitioning out of these behaviors as a process.
