Breaking free from OCD : a CBT guide for young people and their families

Derisley, Jo. (Added Author). Robinson, Lisa Jo. (Added Author).

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence.

ISBN: 1843105748
ISBN: 9781843105749
Physical Description 223 pages : illustrations
Publisher London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.

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

by Derisley, Jo; Heyman, Isobel; Robinson, Sarah; Turner, Cynthia

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

Section	Section Description	Page Number
Part A	Understanding Your OCD
Chapter 1	About this Book	p. 13
	Why should I read this book?
	How should I use this book?
	What are the treatments for OCD?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	Recommended treatments
Chapter 2	What is OCD?	p. 19
	So what is OCD?
	The various symptoms of OCD
	Some information about your thoughts
	Do I have OCD?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
	Does my child have OCD?
	Why does my child have OCD?
Chapter 3	Can I Get Better from OCD?	p. 31
	How to get help
	What are the treatments for OCD?
	How do we know treatments work?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	Getting help for your child with OCD
	What if my child does not want help?
	What assessment will the doctor do, and what treatments will be recommended?
Chapter 4	What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy?	p. 40
	Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for OCD
	Some facts about CBT for OCD
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
Chapter 5	Understanding My OCD	p. 46
	Understanding your obsessions and compulsions
	The OCD trap
	How does your OCD trap work?
	Drawing your own OCD trap
	What does OCD make me avoid?
	What would life be like without OCD?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	Your child's obsessions and compulsions
	How has OCD affected the family?
Part B	How to Recover from Your OCD
Chapter 6	How to Use this Book to Change Your OCD	p. 61
	Measuring your OCD
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	How to help
	Summary
Chapter 7	Understanding the Role of Anxiety	p. 69
	What is anxiety?
	The physical effects of anxiety
	When is anxiety helpful?
	When is anxiety unhelpful?
	Can anxiety harm me?
	Habituation or 'getting used to' anxiety
	An 'anxiety thermometer'
	Using an 'anxiety thermometer' to rate how you feel about doing a task
	Using an 'anxiety thermometer' to rate how you feel over time
	Anxiety graphs
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
Chapter 8	What does My OCD Look Like?	p. 80
	What are my OCD problems?
	Keeping an OCD diary
	Making an OCD ladder
	Deciding where to start
	What should I do next?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	Summary
Chapter 9	Designing Exposure and Response Prevention Exercises	p. 94
	What is exposure and response prevention (E/RP)?
	Designing your first E/RP exercise
	Learning to break OCD's rules
	Doing your first E/RP exercise
	Updating your OCD ladder
	What should I do next?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	Summary
Chapter 10	Making Progress with Exposure and Response Prevention Exercises	p. 110
	How to do more exposure and response prevention (E/RP) exercises
	Making sense of your findings
	What to do if you get stuck
	What should I do if others are involved in my OCD?
	What should I do next?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	When OCD involves you
	How to withdraw from OCD's demands
	What to do about reassurance seeking
	Summary
Chapter 11	Overcoming Difficulties	p. 120
	Questions and answers
	What should I do next?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	Summary
Chapter 12	What Is the Role of My Thoughts?	p. 132
	How important are your thoughts?
	What are typical OCD thoughts?
	Thinking helpful thoughts
	What to say to OCD
	How to think helpful thoughts
	More about fighting back with helpful thoughts
	What should I do next?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	Summary
Chapter 13	How Can I Challenge My Thoughts?	p. 147
	Learning to put OCD worries on trial
	How to make a responsibility pie-chart
	What should I do next?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	When obsessional thoughts involve you
	Summary
Chapter 14	How Can I Test Whether My Thoughts Will Come True?	p. 159
	What is a behavioural experiment?
	Why should I do behavioural experiments?
	How do behavioural experiments work?
	How to carry out a behavioural experiment
	How to overcome problems with behavioural experiments
	What should I do next?
	Check your progress
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
	How to help your child understand his or her beliefs
	Summary
Chapter 15	How to Maintain the Gains I have Made	p. 173
	When might OCD try to reappear?
	What might OCD look like if it tries to reappear?
	What other things can I do?
	What goals do I have for my life?
	Summary
	Advice for parents or carers
Part C	OCD and the Bigger Picture
Chapter 16	OCD and My Family	p. 137
	How does OCD affect families?
	You can overcome OCD
	Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
	Advice for parents or carers
Chapter 17	OCD, School and Friends	p. 196
	OCD and school
	OCD and your friends
	Telling your friends about OCD
Chapter 18	Where to Go for More Information	p. 201
	Books for young people
	Books for children
	Books for parents or carers
	Websites
Appendix	Questionnaire	p. 206
	Worksheet List
Worksheet 2.1	Short obsessive compulsive scale (SOCS)	p. 26
Worksheet 5.1	Understanding my obsessions and compulsions	p. 47
Worksheet 5.2	Understanding my OCD trap	p. 52
Worksheet 5.3	Understanding my child's obsessions and compulsions	p. 56
Worksheet 7.1	How anxiety affects me	p. 71
Worksheet 8.1	My OCD diary	p. 82
Worksheet 8.2	Making my OCD ladder	p. 86
Worksheet 8.3	Making an action plan	p. 90
Worksheet 9.1	How to break my OCD rules	p. 97
Worksheet 9.2	My exposure and response prevention (E/RP) exercise	p. 101
Worksheet 9.3	Updating my OCD ladder	p. 104
Worksheet 9.4	What progress have I made?	p. 106
Worksheet 10.1	My anxiety graphs	p. 112
Worksheet 11.1	Making an OCD timetable	p. 122
Worksheet 11.2	How to understand difficulties with E/RP exercises	p. 128
Worksheet 12.1	How to understand my thoughts	p. 135
Worksheet 12.2	Having helpful thoughts	p. 138
Worksheet 12.3	Thinking more helpful OCD thoughts	p. 143
Worksheet 13.1	How to put my thoughts on trial	p. 150
Worksheet 13.2	How to make my own responsibility pie-chart	p. 155
Worksheet 14.1	My behavioural experiment	p. 162
Worksheet 14.2	How to make sense of my behavioural experiment	p. 169
Worksheet 15.1	An action plan for the future - Part I	p. 175
Worksheet 15.2	An action plan for the future - Part II	p. 180
	List of Figures
Figure 1	Examples of obsessions and compulsions	p. 23
Figure 2	How speaking to Sasha could lead to worry	p. 41
Figure 3	Thinking differently about speaking to Sasha	p. 42
Figure 4	The OCD trap	p. 48
Figure 5	Jake's OCD trap	p. 51
Figure 6	Caught in the OCD trap: anxiety remains	p. 76
Figure 7	Fighting OCD: anxiety reduces with practice at resisting compulsions	p. 76
Figure 8	Sam's OCD diary	p. 83
Figure 9	Oliver's OCD ladder	p. 88
Figure 10	Lisa's small OCD exposure steps	p. 99
Figure 11	Lucia's exposure and response prevention exercise	p. 102
Figure 12	Jayne's 'thoughts on trial' chart	p. 149
Figure 13	Justin's responsibility pie-chart ratings	p. 153
Figure 14	Justin's pie-chart	p. 154
Figure 15	Ashley's first behavioural experiment result	p. 165
Figure 16	Ashley's second behavioural experiment result	p. 167

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