Center for Child/Adolescent Anxiety and OCD Treatment
The lifetime prevalence for anxiety in 13-18 year olds is 25.1% and 5.9% will experience a severe anxiety disorder.
Untreated children with anxiety disorders are at high risk for poor school performance, missing out on important social experiences and substance abuse.
500,000 children and adolescents in the United States have OCD – this is the same number as have Type 1 diabetes.
Research has shown that cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and OCD is more effective long term than medication alone.
Stone Belt recently opened the Milestones Center for Child/Adolescent Anxiety and OCD Treatment. This new anxiety center is a part of Milestones Clinical and Health Resources.
The objective is to help children, adolescents, and their families understand their diagnoses and to provide scientifically supported treatment and recovery with strategies for lifelong management. The clinic offers a multidisciplinary treatment team that includes a psychiatrist and three therapists trained in evidence-based care.
What sets this program apart is the advanced training as master clinicians in anxiety-related disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The treatment team's commitment to care will include a consistent staffing of cases to offer maximum benefit to clients. The clinic offers treatment fidelity and flexibility to meet the developmental needs of each individual.
Stone Belt is committed to providing ongoing professional development through trainings, webinars, and attendance at special conferences for the master clinicians.
Diagnostic categories include: GAD, OCD, phobias, social anxiety, panic, trichotillomania, separation anxiety and selective mutism.
To access care, call 812-333-6324, ext. 623, and staff will help identify treatment needs.
On average, it takes 14 to 17 years from symptom emergence to receive appropriate treatment for OCD.
Most common first appearance of OCD is between the ages of 8-12 and then in the late teenage years. Symptoms can present as young as 2-3 years of age.
Anxiety tends to be chronic unless properly treated.