Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say "No Way" -- and Parents Say "Way to Go"

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Guilford Press, Dec 28, 2006 - Psychology - 276 pages

No one wants to get rid of obsessive-compulsive disorder more than someone who has it. That's why Talking Back to OCD puts kids and teens in charge. Dr. John March's eight-step program has already helped thousands of young people show the disorder that it doesn't call the shots--they do. This uniquely designed volume is really two books in one. Each chapter begins with a section that helps kids and teens zero in on specific problems and develop skills they can use to tune out obsessions and resist compulsions. The pages that follow show parents how to be supportive without getting in the way. The next time OCD butts in, your family will be prepared to boss back--and show an unwelcome visitor to the door.
 

Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit


 

Contents

2
19
What Does OCD Look Like?
25
3
31
What Causes OCD?
47
4
61
PART II
79
What Kind of Treatment Is This Anyway?
85
Instructions for Parents
98
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136
Instructions for Parents
150
Instructions for Parents
176
Instructions for Parents
199
Instructions for Parents
220
Instructions for Parents
235
Instructions for Parents
250
Therapists Checklist of Obsessions and Compulsions
265

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107
Instructions for Parents
128

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Page ix - This book, while rich in information, will in some instances not do justice to the edge of the field, and the reader may not agree with everything we say. The errors of fact are ours; the controversies will eventually yield to good science.

About the author (2006)

John S. March, MD, MPH, is former Director of the Division of Neurosciences Medicine at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He has extensive experience developing and testing treatments for pediatric mental disorders and has published widely on obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and pediatric psychopharmacology.
 
Christine M. Benton is a Chicago-based writer and editor.

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