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Building Confidence

Building Confidence is a family-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) programme for children ages 6 to 13 years with anxiety disorders, and their parents.

Building Confidence emphasises parent communication training, with the specific goal of reducing parental intrusiveness and increasing child autonomy in relation to parents.

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The fact that an intervention is listed in this glossary does not necessarily mean that we agree with its use. Nor does it necessarily mean that there is any scientifically valid or reliable evidence behind it.