About this episode

This episode discusses the potential of schools to prevent childhood anxiety through a parent-led cognitive behavioural therapy program.

In this episode of Mind the Kids, the podcast from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH), host Clara Faria, academic clinical fellow in child psychiatry, is joined by Dr. Tessa Reardon, research fellow in the departments of experimental psychology and psychiatry at the University of Oxford. Dr. Reardon shares findings from her recently published paper in JCPP, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, co-authored with colleagues. Drawing on the My Cats cluster randomised controlled trial, the study recruited children aged four to seven identified as being at heightened risk for anxiety disorders through schools across England. The intervention — known as OSI (Online Support and Intervention for Child Anxiety) — is a parent-led, therapist-supported online cognitive behavioural therapy programme, in which parents work through digital modules of approximately 20 minutes each, supported by brief telephone or video calls with a children's wellbeing practitioner, amounting to around two and a half hours of contact time in total. The research sits against a backdrop of a growing gap between the need for child mental health support and access to…

People in this episode

Host: Clara Faria

Guest: Dr. Tessa Reardon

Topics covered

• child anxiety
• parent-led CBT
• mental health
• schools
• intervention

Keywords

• child anxiety
• CBT
• parent-led intervention
• mental health support
• schools

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Oxford

Books & works: JCPP

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