Cognitive Behaviour Therapy?

[brachy]

I'm not sure if this is the right section, but DD (age 5.3yrs) has recently been diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder. She begins CBT fairly soon.

What will this entail?
Has anyone had a child with a SAD dx who has undergone CBT...how are they now, how are they getting on?

Any positive stories and helpful hints will be most gratefully received.

Many thanks,

Not SAD, but my dd (13) has OCD and has had CBT for about a year and a half- firstly with NHS, but then they said they couldn't offer her any more sessions.
I disagreed- felt she needed some sort of regular support, and sure enough within 3 months her behaviour deteriorated.
We went to a private therapist- made more impact in 3 sessions than in 8 months.
She goes every 2 or 3 months, but has overcome so much.
Hope yours is successful.

my daughter is query AS and she has very bad anxiety and has been unable to attend school now for 3 months. she also has OCD and has been taking Sertraline for it. we attend camhs were she is recieving CBT and has had about 5 sessions so far. i dont know if it is helping her much, as they have to use their thoughts and feelings etc and because dd has a lot of AS traits, i am not sure if that is hindering her or if she just cannot understand it.

deaddie, how does your dd cope with her OCD and what way does it affect her in daily life. have u any tips on how to cope with it, all help gratefully recieved!!!

bev

My dd's have not had CBT but i have (for anxiety and phobias), i went private and wasted a lot of money, it has not helped me at all but i put that down to my Autistic/AS traits (i think its hard to convince an Autistic brain into thinking differently about things), i had around 10 sessions and in the end had to give up because i felt no progress was being made. I am now trying to get help on the NHS.

beverleyjayne- dd was saying lengthy prayers, lots of repitition, obsessed with other dcs being sick.
Refused to go on coaches/missed school trips.
Resulted in self harming. Refused to go on holidays.
She has just been to Spain with school on a 24 hr coach journey- no problem.
Mainly now she is still worried about ds eating too much/being sick- my ds has not been sick in 8 years, and eats sensibly!
We have toi be very firm with her- "please go to your room if you're going to behave like that" etc.
She is 13, so we have hormonal teenage outbursts but nothing like we had for the years before,
Good luck with your dc.