TREATMENT OPTIONS

Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive-behavioral therapy combines many aspects of both cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy. It teaches children to react differently to the situations and bodily sensations that trigger panic attacks and other anxiety symptoms, depression, or obsessive-compulsive. In addition, children also learn to understand how their thinking patterns contribute to their symptoms and how to change their thoughts so that symptoms are less likely to occur. This awareness of thinking patterns is combined with exposure and other behavioral techniques to help people confront their feared situations.