{"podcast":{"title":"The Affirming Minds Podcast","slug":"the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030","podcast_index_feed_id":7020030,"rss_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/2147817279/feed","website_url":"https://shaina-siber-sanderowitz.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-affirming-minds-podcast","image_url":"https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/file-uploads/site/2147588465/podcasts/62c14b-434a-4335-ef7a-0283066e7f4_14a6baf4-8899-4276-b68b-c5ac799fe86f.png","author":"Shaina Siber, LCSW","episode_count":84,"summary":"Build your elite therapeutic toolkit learning through expert-led \"pod-courses\" and interviews. CEs available for Affirm Academy members.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T16:20:04.992245+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 71 | The Parent Is the Intervention: What Therapists Need to Know About BPT and SPACE with Grace Berman, LCSW","slug":"episode-71-the-parent-is-the-intervention-what-therapists-need-to-know-about-bpt-and-space-with-grace-berman-lcsw","published_at":"2026-03-24T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episode-71-the-parent-is-the-intervention-what-therapists-need-to-know-about-bpt-and-space-with-grace-berman-lcsw","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030","url":"https://shaina-siber-sanderowitz.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-affirming-minds-podcast/episodes/2149182254","audio_url":"https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/medias/2149182254.mp3","summary":"  Course Information: https://www.canva.com/design/DAHEx3SjNn4/YYhpzRA8P0PooWCNxqFUJQ/view?utm_content=DAHEx3SjNn4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h9fde65f80a --- Episode Summary: In this episode, I’m joined by Grace Berman, LCSW, to explore evidence-based approaches for treating children with  anxiety, ADHD, and behavioral challenges . We break down how therapists can integrate  Behavioral Parent Training (BPT)  and  SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions)  to reduce parental accommodation, improve child behavior, and build emotional regulation through parent-mediated interventions. This conversation highlights how to move beyond diagnosis and use a  functional approach to child behavior , including reinforcement, extinction bursts, natural consequences, and parent consistency to support long-term outcomes. --- Topics Covered: Child anxiety treatment ADHD in children Behavioral Parent Training SPACE therapy Parental accommodation Emotional dysregulation Extinction bursts Natural consequences Parent-mediated interventions Evidence-based therapy for children --- About Our Guest: Grace Berman is a licensed clinical social worker and adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work. She specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety disorders and OCD at the Ross Center. Previously, she trained as an Advanced Clinical Social Work Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center, where she later served as a faculty clinician, and held clinical and supervisory roles at the Child Mind Institute. In addition to her clinical work at the Ross Center, she is co-director of Community Education, providing workshops and consultation to scho…","meta_description":"Course Information: https://www.canva.com/design/DAHEx3SjNn4/YYhpzRA8P0PooWCNxqFUJQ/view?utm_content=DAHEx3SjNn4&utm_campaign=designshare&u…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3715,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episodes/episode-71-the-parent-is-the-intervention-what-therapists-need-to-know-about-bpt-and-space-with-grace-berman-lcsw/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-affirming-minds-podcast-7020030/episode-71-the-parent-is-the-intervention-what-therapists-need-to-know-about-bpt-and-space-with-grace-berman-lcsw.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}