ABSTRACT

Take Control of OCD: A Kid's Guide to Conquering Anxiety and Managing OCD is a must-have guide for kids and teens ages 10-16 with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to help them take control and use their strengths to find success in school and in life. This fully updated second edition:

  • Uses a cognitive-behavioral therapy and exposure/response prevention method to stress gradual exposure to obsessive thinking patterns.
  • Provides a step-by-step ladder-based process to help readers conquer their fears and demolish their worries.
  • Helps kids change their obsessive thoughts, tolerate uncertainty, and develop positive self-talk and stress management.
  • Also helps kids advocate for their needs in school and build successful relaxation procedures.
  • Includes workbook-style pages for readers to complete.

By interviewing kids with OCD from across the country, the author offers tons of advice, information, and ideas for students, by students just like them. Readers will find themselves in this book, as it normalizes and validates the often hidden and undisclosed thoughts, urges, and images, and accompanying rituals and compulsions that so many children and teens with OCD struggle with.

Ages 10-16

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

How to Use This Book

chapter Chapter 1|19 pages

What Is OCD?

chapter Chapter 2|15 pages

How to Overcome OCD

chapter Chapter 3|34 pages

Developing Your Ladder

chapter Chapter 4|19 pages

Learning How to Relax

chapter Chapter 5|20 pages

Challenging Obsessive Thoughts and Worries, PART 1

chapter Chapter 6|18 pages

Challenging Obsessive Thoughts and Worries, PART 2

Loop and Imaginal Exposure Recordings

chapter Chapter 7|7 pages

Tolerating Uncertainty

chapter Chapter 8|6 pages

OCD and Other Conditions

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

Facing Your Fears

Exposure/Response Prevention

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

Becoming Resilient to OCD

Going the Extra Mile With Exposures

chapter Chapter 11|14 pages

Stress Management

chapter Chapter 12|7 pages

Congratulations!

Celebrate Yourself and Your Accomplishments

chapter |1 pages

Conclusion

Best Wishes for Continued Success