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The Essential Guide to OCD – Help for Families and Friends de Helen Poskitt

The Essential Guide to OCD – Help for Families and Friends: Essential Guides

Autor Helen Poskitt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2013
Are you living or working with someone who has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? Perhaps it's your partner, or child; a parent, close friend of work colleague? This practical guide enables families, carers and friends to provide support for those with OCD. It also includes interviews with relatives, friends and colleagues of those with OCD.
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ISBN-13: 9780745955803
ISBN-10: 0745955800
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.02 kg
Editura: SPCK – Lion Books
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Notă biografică

Helen Poskitt is a published ex-freelance journalist, poet and author. She has received favourable responses from both OCD sufferers and mental health professionals to her written work relating to OCD. Her chapter '69 Ways to Beat OCD' was published in September 2011, in the anthology Taking Control of OCD (published by Constable Robinson) ed. by Dr David Veale and Rob Wilson.

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Acknowledgments 8 Chapter 1: Introduction 9 What is OCD? 9 How Common is OCD? 13 Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis 14 What Triggers OCD? 18 Public Awareness 30 Chapter 2: OCD Obsessions 33 Contamination 33 Causing Harm to Others or Self 34 Symmetry 35 "Safe" Numbers and "Good" Words 35 Scrupulosity/Religiosity 35 Sexual Themes 36 Rumination 39 Are OCD Sufferers Disabled? 40 Chapter 3: Compulsions and Rituals 41 Fear of Contamination 41 Fear of Illness 54 Fear of Harming Others 58 Checking 58 Repetitive Action Rituals 63 Chapter 4: Hoarding 67 A Separate Condition? 70 Treatment 75 Chapter 5: Types of Treatment For OCD 83 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) 83 Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) 85 Counselling/Psychotherapy 86 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) 89 Alternative Treatments 89 Medication 90 Chapter 6: Other Treatments for OCD 93 Hospital Treatment 93 Neurosurgery 94 Treatments to Avoid 95 Public Access to Treatment 99 Chapter 7: Advice for Pa rents OF Children and Teenagers/Students with OCD 103 Diagnosis 105 Educating GPs 105 Family Dynamics 105 How to Treat OCD in Children and Teenagers 108 Coping Tips 121 Educating Schools 122 Helping a Teenaged Student 124 Chapter 8: Independent Adults with OCD: Advice to Pa rents, Friends and Pa rtners 129 Useful Tips 129 Misdiagnosis 134 Coping 136 What Help is Available? 137 Chapter 9: Advice for Young Ca rers 139 Looking After Yourself 140 What to Do to Help 141 Chapter 10: Employment and the Workplace 145 Employers - UK 145 To Declare or Not to Declare 148 Employers - Australia 150 Employers - USA 152 Endpaper 155 Appendix A: OCD and the Brain 157 Appendix B: Genetics 159 Appendix C: Pa rents and Their Children 160 Appendix D: Counselling and Psychotherapy 162 Bibliography 163 Useful Websites and Organizations 166 Notes 171