ABSTRACT
Enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E) is one-on-one treatment, but parents are involved in the treatment during parent-only sessions and some joint sessions with both the young patient and the therapist. This chapter explains why parents need to be involved and how they can help create an optimal family environment that facilitates change and support the implementation of some treatment procedures. As a general rule, CBT-E procedures are introduced and discussed with the young patient first. Then, if they agree to implement the procedure and believe that their parents would be in a position to help, they will be invited to join the session to discuss what their role should be. The young patient is reassured that neither their parents nor their therapist will be allowed to make decisions for them—for CBT-E to be successful, they need to be agents of their own change.
