PSP: 391: What to Do When Your Child Won’t Get Needed Mental Health Treatment with Alec Pollard
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The number one struggle I hear from parents is, “My child won’t accept help for their anxiety or OCD.” What are we supposed to do when anxiety or OCD has hijacked the house and everyone who inhabits it?
Dr. Alec Pollard has dedicated his career and research to this very question. He is the co-developer of the Family Well-Being Approach (FWBA) and is the founding director of the Center for OCD & Anxiety-Related Disorders at Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, and professor emeritus of family and community medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
He also happens to be one of my favorite researchers, as he has a down-to-earth way about explaining and helping families in need. He’s also quite funny.
In Dr. Pollard’s new book, When a Loved One Won’t Seek Mental Health Treatment, he offers family members a roadmap on how to get their life back while promoting their loved one’s recovery.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I had the joy of sitting down with Dr. Pollard and exploring some of the key points in his approach outlined in his book. I know every parent will get some important takeaways from our discussion!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos |
| 0:08.7 | 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 a qualified |
| 0:17.2 | professional. |
| 0:18.7 | Here's your host, Child Therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.1 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, we're going to be |
| 0:28.9 | talking about something that I know so many of you struggle with, and that is, what do you do when your |
| 0:36.1 | child, teen, young adult won't get the mental health |
| 0:41.0 | treatment they need. They just can't do it. And I know a lot of you are struggling with just how to |
| 0:48.2 | navigate your child's mental health struggles with your family and your home, maybe your partner, your other |
| 0:56.6 | kids. And so I'm really excited today to bring in really the go-to person on this topic. |
| 1:04.7 | He has been around forever. I don't want to make him sound old. He just he's one of those in my mind in my like |
| 1:13.0 | oCD community mind he's like one of those legends and he's recently written a book I'm |
| 1:17.9 | talking about dr. Alec Pollard who is amazing and is the founding director of the center for |
| 1:25.5 | OCD and anxiety related disorders inated Disorders in St. Louis, |
| 1:29.1 | St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute. He is a professor and he is a licensed psychologist |
| 1:35.5 | and he has this special interest in study the treatment of individuals with anxiety and emotional |
| 1:41.2 | disorders who refuse or otherwise fail to benefit from evidence-based treatment, |
| 1:45.4 | which really is the struggle that so many of us experience. |
| 1:50.7 | He's the co-developer of the family well-being approach, FWBA. |
| 1:55.3 | I was fortunate to have him be one of the researchers who taught my advanced training in the BTTI through IOCDF. |
| 2:04.9 | So I've seen him teach. I've been part of his teaching. And he was one of the ones that really |
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