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Breaking Free from OCD: A CBT Guide for Young People and Their Families

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I recommend trying to read up-to-date resources as well if you are looking to do the self-directed program. If you’re living with OCD and seeking to read something written by someone who ‘gets it’, then this is the book for you! Cynthia Turner, PhD, MClinPsych, is Honorary Lecturer at the King's College Institute of Psychiatry, London and Senior Clinical Psychologist at the national and specialist OCD clinic for children and young people, Maudsley Hospital, UK.

There are several excellent self-help books for OCD currently available but, as a mental health professional working in this area, I consider this to be one of the best I have come across. The guide does offer some excellent information for parents who want to tackle their child's OCD so I would most definitely recommend it to them. Because of this it is important to involve an adult helper to encourage you to fight your OCD symptoms. My therapist recommended this book to me when I was first diagnosed with OCD and it has been very helpful. In clear language and without a whiff of blame, Lebowitz hands parents the key to unhooking themselves and their children from excessive anxiety.

Instead, parents are shown how to replace their own accommodating behaviors (which allow anxiety to flourish) with supportive responses that demonstrate both acceptance of children's difficulties and confidence in their ability to cope. If you know someone with OCD but don’t understand their mindset or how to help them, then this is also the book for you! Chloe discussed this avoidance with her mum and they decided to use the timetable to schedule in tasks to complete throughout the week. It's written in a way that, while accessible to everyday people, can come across as incredibly preachy. Parents will learn how to alleviate their children's anxiety by changing the way they themselves respond to their children's symptoms-importantly, parents are not required to impose changes on their children's behavior.

I think if you had moderate OCD, this could work as a guidebook but honestly I do not know if it would work well on its own. It includes helpful information on medications and shows readers how they can calm their impulses through techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy.Overall, after determining myself as very moderately OCD, I really don’t think the methods in the book would work all that well for me.

Well organized and relatable, Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD is an indispensable guide to the SPACE program -- a unique, powerful, evidence-based method of treating childhood anxiety. The book is, I feel, an invaluable step-by-step guide for young people and their families as well as being an excellent resource for the counsellor/therapists. I found the therapy I received through Anxiety UK a crucial and affordable form of support during a very difficult time. The book has given me a clearer, better and deeper understanding of how OCD works and more importantly how to challenge it. This questionnaire will provide you with a rough idea of how much the obsessions and compulsions are interfering in your life.There is a question-and-answer section, which will give you advice on how to overcome any problems that you may encounter when trying to make progress. I am always looking for strategies for the many unique and complex situations I find myself and my families enduring. Whether you are compelled to wash your hands more and more thoroughly or feel the need to keep checking that you’ve turned off appliances, obsessive worries can be a drain on daily life. Whether your condition is mild or severe, this definitive resource will help you reclaim your life and keep OCD away for good. AnxietyUK has been so helpful to me - I joined to access affordable therapy, though I was worried there might be a long wait list.

Your local library service also offers many Reading Well books as ebooks and audiobooks, free to download. OCD is one of the most common mental health conditions and is thought to affect 2-3% of the UK population at a clinical level, while many more may experience some symptoms which interfere with their life. Thus, instead of deliberately offending God, the person could repeatedly expose oneself to thoughts such as 'I am mad' 'I am going to hell' etc (depending on what bothers them the most about the initial intrusive though).Whether one is compelled to clean more and more thoroughly, is plagued by "bad" thoughts, or feels the need to keep checking if they've turned off appliances, obsessive worries can become a drain on daily life--but this guide offers hope for sufferers. I could also visualise how helpful this will be for my families and give them the language to increase their confidence. They might be a guardian, carer or counsellor, or another important adult who knows you well and can support you in making changes even when you feel unsure or frightened. If you’re looking for help on how to cope, healing and grow your faith in the midst of an OCD overwhelmed life, open the pages of this encouraging book; for through the author’s personal experiences you will discover how to implement scripture and encouragement into your day-to-day life and how to utilize your OCD in a positive way. Some of what's in this book I already knew from my time at CBT but some of it gave me that lightbulb moment of 😮 oooh yeaaaahhh, to explain some of my behaviours.

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