Research Opportunities

We offer participation through Research Opportunities. Participation is contingent about meeting specific screening criteria. 

Study of Family Accommodation in Childhood Anxiety Disorders: This project studies the ways in which parents change their behavior or routines because of their child’s anxiety disorder. We have developed a modified version of the Family Accommodation Scale to assess accommodation in parents of children with anxiety disorders. Parents of all children who display elevated anxiety on assessment in the Outpatient Clinic will complete the accommodation measure in addition to all the other routine assessment measures. Using a scale developed specifically for this purpose this study aims to explore the ways in which children may forcefully impose accommodation on their environments and to compare these behaviors with those seen in more classically behaviorally disturbed youth.

Open Trial of Parent Training for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Two critical clinical questions in treating anxious children are: How to help children who refuse to participate in treatment and what is the role of parent work in helping to treat the child’s anxiety?  Dr. Eli Lebowitz has developed a clinical research project which offers 10-12 sessions of parent training for parents of children ages 7-13 who suffer from an anxiety disorder. Parents of 15 children will participate in the study and complete measures of their child’s difficulties before treatment, mid-treatment and after.