Freeing your child from obsessive-compulsive disorder: a powerful, practical program for parents of children and adolescents 9780307794444, 030779444X

If you're a parent of one of the more than one million children in this country with obsessive-compulsive disorder,

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Freeing your child from obsessive-compulsive disorder: a powerful, practical program for parents of children and adolescents
 9780307794444, 030779444X

Table of contents :
Understanding OCD --
Cracking the code: visualizing the secret mechanisms of OCD --
Diagnosing OCD: the difference between OCD and normal behavior --
The course of OCD: what to expect --
Treatments for OCD --
The parents' role: roots and wings --
Good parenting skills to bring to OCD --
The OCD strategy: a battle plan --
Pressure points in OCD --
Coping with the diagnosis of OCD: taking care of yourself --
Contamination fears --
Checking / repeating / redoing: doubting your own senses --
Just right: evenness, ordering, symmetry, numbers, and hoarding --
Intrusive thoughts and imagined impulses: harm, scrupulosity, and sexual thoughts --
Managing OCD in the larger context --
Seeing your child through OCD.

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