Tools to Reduce Childhood Anxiety & OCD - Dr. Eli Lebowitz

In this episode of LD Expert Live, Jill Stowell talks to Dr. Eli Lebowitz about childhood anxiety and OCD:
✅ Ways parents can make a difference
✅ How to alleviate the anxiety and promote independence
✅ What childhood OCD looks like and what parents can do

Parents: if your child has anxiety or OCD tendencies, this episode is for you!

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00:00 LD Expert Live is introduced
04:15 Dr. Eli Lebowitz is introduced
05:28 Dr. Lebowitz’s book is introduced- Breaking Free of Child Anxiety & OCD- what you’ll learn in this book
08:46 Poor performance in school- is anxiety more prevalent with kids with learning challenges?
11:18 Did I cause my child’s anxiety? Parents want to know
14:28 How does a child with serious anxiety impact the whole family? Fight/Flight is explained
18:15 What happens when you have to rely on accommodations for your child with high anxiety
20:15 What can be done to help children/teens with anxiety?
24:45 How to practice being supportive of your anxious child
30:34 Question: Is it a bad sign if my younger child is mimicking their older sibling that has high anxiety?
34:56 Question: My son has a fear of me leaving him alone- what can I do?
41:19 OCD described and what is the root of it?
46:28 How do you implement the SPACE approach to OCD?
52:56 Question: 17 year old has OCD that started around puberty- is there a correlation between OCD and developmental growth?
57:49 Dr. Lebowitz’s final thoughts


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