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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English Pages (341 pages) : illustrations Year 2000;2011
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.