Courageous Parents, Courageous Children

The intervention will be delivered in two stages: First, the parent with an anxiety disorder will attend between six and sixteen weekly sessions of cognitive behavioural skills training focusing on their own anxiety. They will work on developing behaviours that will help them become less anxious in the long-run and on learning to evaluate danger in a realistic way. Next, the parent will take part in four to eight weekly sessions of anti-anxiety parenting skills training aiming to help them transfer the skills that they learned into parenting their children. In the parenting intervention, the parents will be guided to gradually expose their children to new situations, build communication skills and confidence, in addition to general parenting skills and principles.