Anxiety disorder is a very prominent issue among psychiatric problems experienced by children today more than most would expect. Some of the immediate and more common deficiencies seen in children dealing with anxiety are directed towards school refusal, failure to develop relationships with new friends, and family conflict (Wood, McLeod, Piacentini, & Sigman, 2009). In addition to those problems it’s been noted in much of the literature that children who suffer from anxiety often develop coinciding problems of depression and substance use (Wood at el., 2009). Cognitive behavior therapy has become a primary solution of treatment for many therapist working with children, but other has took note of the difficulty working with children with anxiety …show more content…
When developing this new idea for the client it could be beneficial to draw simple map out, a visual displaying how thoughts will always present themselves, sometime in negative way and how they are different from feelings but also connected to our behaviors (Practicewise, 2009). Parental support could be very valuable in therapy for the child in certain circumstances but as Wood et al., (2009) reasoned that “heightened intrusiveness by parents is hypothesized to maintain elevated levels of child anxiety” (p. 302). Woods was suggesting through therapy the patient/child could possibly do much of it independently and with such intrusive actions by parents especially in the initial start of CBT, could “impose an immature level of functioning on their child” (Woods et al., 2009 …show more content…
As the clinician it’s crucial to understand that not every parent or child will buy into all treatment options such as cognitive behavioral therapy, in a study conducted by Wergeland et al., (2015) it was noted that both children’s and parents’ “reported of treatment credibility contribute to the prediction of dropout”, suggesting that concentrating on ways to improve both child and parent perceived treatment reliability could prevent treatment dropout (p.7). The trust, rapport, and relationship development between client/child and family could possibly be the most valuable piece in any treatment for anxiety especially with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), being as though you will be presenting a treatment of challenging internalized thought processes and activities that can sometime be hard to grasp mentally. The next step in the intervention would be introducing probability of overestimation, helping the child understand that thoughts often can contain predictions about the future (Practicewise,