PSP 280: My Child Doesn’t Want Help for Anxiety or OCD. Now What?
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
You finally found help for your child with anxiety or OCD but they don’t want to work on it.
Now what?
That can be beyond frustrating! Especially if it took you a long time to connect with the right resources or help.
But no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There is always a next step, even when our child or teen isn’t able or willing to work on anxiety or OCD.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about some of the reasons why kids don’t want to work on these issues and what parents can do about it.
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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. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | Today I want to talk about what do you do when your child doesn't want help for anxiety |
| 0:35.4 | or OCD? |
| 0:36.4 | And a lot of times as parents, often, we think that's the end of the road, game over. |
| 0:41.9 | My child doesn't want to work on it, so I either don't do anything or I force it and |
| 0:49.0 | there's so much more in between that. |
| 0:50.9 | So today I want to dive into exploring why a child or teenager wouldn't want help |
| 0:57.4 | for anxiety or OCD because there's lots of different reasons and then what to do about |
| 1:01.1 | it because there are a lot of action steps that you can still take as a parent and the |
| 1:07.2 | only question that really you need to know is why it's happening and then what's your |
| 1:13.6 | next step because there is always, always, always, always a next step. |
| 1:19.0 | There's never inertia, there's always something that you can do for this journey and we're |
| 1:24.4 | going to explore what that is. |
| 1:27.1 | Before we get started, a couple of announcements, first one is I want to thank NoCD. |
| 1:31.6 | NoCD sponsors this podcast and this episode and they offer affordable, effective, convenient |
| 1:37.8 | therapy available in the U.S. and outside of the U.S. and you can schedule a free 15-minute |
| 1:43.7 | consultation to see if NoCD is right fit for you and your child. |
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