Prevention of Childhood Anxiety Disorders in Offspring of Anxious Parents

"Session 1: Psychoeducation.~Session 2: How to decrease criticism and rejection. Skills that provide a warm parenting style and acceptance of the child: validation and child directed play/activities.~Session 3: Strategies to increase the autonomy of the child. The parents will learn how to use a stepladder approach to decrease overprotective behaviours.~Session 4: How to decrease modelling of anxious behaviours and how to be a brave role model.~Session 5: How to recognise and respond when your child is anxious. How to help your child approach new or scary things by using a stepladder approach.~Session 6: Review of the principles and skills learned during the program. The group members will make a plan for how to continue the work on their own."

Participants in the control group will receive a self-help parenting book containing general research-based parenting strategies. They will be instructed to read the book within the 10 weeks from baseline to post.