As children become more anxious, so do their parents and family. Parents may fuel their child’s anxiety through overaccommodation by insulating their child's stress and discomfort.

We would like to show you tools from the FST| Family Systems Trauma model on why parents unknowingly overaccommodate to their child’s anxiety.

Did you know that anxiety travels in families? As children become more anxious, so does their entire family. And when this happens, parents will often use what is called “overaccommodation” to insulate their child's stress that maintains their child’s anxiety. In turn, the root causes of the child’s anxiety are not addressed, and the problem remains.

Join Dr. Scott Sells as he shares:

(1) How and why treating anxiety only with individual treatment and not also family therapy can lead to relapse.

(2) How parents unknowingly overaccommodate to their child’s anxiety and how you can reverse it.

(3) How “strongholds” or false beliefs such as shame, blame, performance or approval lead to root causes of anxiety in both our parents and children.

Intensive Q & A with Dr. Sells will follow this discussion. Reference: Sells, S.P. (2018). Treating the Traumatized Child, A Step-By-Step Family Systems Approach. New York, NY: Springer.

Join me on May 8 from 12 - 1 pm ET for the free webinar, Healing Anxious Kids and Their Anxious Family.  All registered participants will receive the link to the recording.

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