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! Want to speak to a learning specialist about you or your child? Click https://stowellcenter.com/learning-sp... -- 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 #LDExpert #childhoodanxiety #childanxietyawareness #jillstowell