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

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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. It offers day-to-day coping strategies you can start using right away, along with proven-effective self-help techniques that can help you maintain your progress. Fantastic book to learn everything about OCD, breaking the stigma that OCD is only based on behaviour compulsions. Like all new skills it will involve practice and you will have to repeat tasks until you learn more about your OCD and your worries lessen. She studied experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and trained in CBT at the University of Oxford.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. They were also super helpful when unfortunately our schedules didn't align, and I was matched with a therapist with availability that matched mine. On top of all that it's also given me a better understanding about what some of the people I know (who might not even have OCD/know they have it or have just not told anyone they have it) are going through and how I can help them.

Very nice to know this support is out there as quite often hard to actually get an opportunity to speak to someone in person these days. 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. 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.

This will allow you to compare the scores that you obtain, and to see whether your OCD symptoms have changed as a result of the work that you have done. The book takes readers through the treatment of OCD in logical manner, making it really easy to follow an understand for young people and their parents. If you’re living with OCD and seeking to read something written by someone who ‘gets it’, then this is the book for you!

There is more updated information out there that shows that this is NOT helpful, and if anything is likely to turn into a compulsion/ritual in itself. The book has given me a clearer, better and deeper understanding of how OCD works and more importantly how to challenge it.

vc_column_text][vc_column_text]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 found the therapy I received through Anxiety UK a crucial and affordable form of support during a very difficult time. 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 a condition is mild or severe, this definitive resource will help the sufferer reclaim his or her life and keep OCD away for good. I'm about a third the way through a 16-week program and the benefits and rewards are already coming through. It you want to know how to empower your child/teen to live their life to the fullest in the face of anxiety, this is the 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.

From understanding child anxiety and OCD, to learning how to talk with an anxious child, to avoiding common traps and pitfalls (such as being overly protective or demanding), to identifying the ways in which parents have been enabling a child's anxious behaviors, this book is full of detailed guidance and practical suggestions. There are a number of exercises in this book that, when done consistently, will lessen the noises raging in your brain. Young people living with OCD experience recurrent obsessions or compulsions that are distressing and interfere with their social lives, relationships, educational functioning and careers. This is an excellent self-help book for young people who are suffering from OCD and their families and/or carers but it is also an invaluable resource for clinicians, teachers and other professionals who may be working with children with these difficulties.

It's well written, not preachy and even just reading out of interest might provide help to people who didn't know they needed it. With advice for parents and exercises for children and teens, the authors reassure the entire family while offering concrete ways to "break free". Through a period of some significant challenge, the services offered by Anxiety UK has been fantastic, and whilst there is a long road head, progress is positive and forward. The author shares the nitty-gritty details of the day to day fears and compulsions that once controlled most of her life. The therapist appointments were a nightmare and were incorrectly set up via Anxiety UK, he never got the perks or discounts for the mindfulness app and everyone I spoke to was either completely clueless and when I spoke to the manager he was so rude that I worried for the vulnerable people using the service!