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

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Professor Paul Salkovskis is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science and Programme Director of the forthcoming doctorate programme in clinical psychology at the University of Bath.

With advice for parents and exercises for children and teens, the authors reassure the entire family while offering concrete ways to "break free". However, a deliberate act of blasphemy is a sin and the treatment designed like that would surely encounter a huge opposition from the spiritual advisor (priest, imam, pastor, rabbi) and the religious person going through the therapy process. There is a chapter to help you understand how common these types of thoughts are when you have OCD, and advice on how best to challenge and test these thoughts.

Obsessive worries can be a drain on daily life, but this practical guide, written by three leading Cognitive Behavioural Therapy experts, enables you to make sense of your symptoms, and gives a simple plan to help you conquer OCD. To get a score that will indicate how much the obsessions are interfering in your life, simply add up the numbers that you have circled for each of these questions. Worksheets are included to help parents translate the book's suggestions into action, and the book's compassionate and personable tone will make it a welcoming resource for any concerned parent. 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. 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.

Overall, a good book that will walk you through cognitive behavioral therapy and lead you to better knowledge of OCD. This section will be updated with lots of information, advice and features to help families understand and cope better with their loved one’s OCD. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.Written by leading experts on OCD, this step-by-step guide is written for adolescents with OCD and their families, to be used in home treatment or as a self-help book. I think this book is great for those who would like a better understanding of how OCD works or those who don’t have access to professional help.

Very happy with the way things are going so far and also pleased with how smoothly it was set up and assessed as to what I was after and a service that fitted around my work and life balance. Your local library service also offers many Reading Well books as ebooks and audiobooks, free to download. 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.

This book is written by people who know their shit and I highly recommend this book to anyone who suffers with OCD or is interested in OCD or wants to understand what someone they love is going through. The OCD Workbook has helped thousands of people with OCD break the bonds of troubling OCD symptoms and regain the hope of a productive life. Whether a condition is mild or severe, this definitive resource will help the sufferer reclaim his or her life and keep OCD away for good. Personally I feel Anxiety UK offers a fantastic service which fills that much needed gap between being referred to NHS and your actual appointment time which nowadays due to Covid can be up to a year in waiting time.