PSP: 234: Why Consequences Don’t Work on Anxiety or OCD
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Raising a child with anxiety or OCD is hard enough, but when you disagree with family members on how to approach it, the boat gets even rockier!
In my practice I often watched as family members bickered over whether they should consequence behavior that was anxiety or OCD related.
I would hear things like:
You coddle him too much
You just need to discipline her more
You can’t let them get away with that
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I explain why consequences simply do not work on anxiety or OCD behavior and what to do instead.
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Here is the research article I talked about in the podcast episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through |
| 0:08.1 | the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.1 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of |
| 0:16.5 | a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels |
| 0:22.2 | Well hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | How's it going? |
| 0:31.8 | Today I want to talk to you about consequences, a lot of hoopla about wool consequences |
| 0:39.2 | work on kids' things ID or OCD. |
| 0:41.2 | I see a lot of couples struggling and a lot of families having conflict around the debate |
| 0:47.8 | over should we consequence this behavior that is because or is being generated from |
| 0:54.4 | this child's anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:56.4 | So I want to talk to you about, well spoiler alert, the title of the podcast kind of gives |
| 1:00.6 | the game away. |
| 1:01.9 | But I want to talk to you about why consequences don't work on anxiety or OCD, not because |
| 1:07.2 | it is a philosophical parental decision, but why objectively it just won't work. |
| 1:14.0 | And I'm not going to leave you hanging, we'll talk about what things to do instead |
| 1:17.8 | because this is all about giving you hope, giving you ideas, giving you support and we |
| 1:22.8 | will wrap up with well then what should I do when my child is acting this way or what |
| 1:26.8 | should I do when their anxiety or OCD is causing this, this and this. |
| 1:31.0 | But before we jump into it, I do want to say thank you to no CD, this episode is sponsored |
| 1:36.0 | by no CD and no CD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy is available in the US and |
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