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

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Jo Derisley, ClinPsyD, AFBPsS, DipCogTher, is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Norfolk & Waveney Mental Health Care Trust, UK. She has written several articles on the subject.
Part 1: Understanding Your OCD. 1. About This Book. 2. What is OCD? 3. Can I Get Better From OCD? 4. What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? 5. Understanding My OCD. Part 2: How To Recover from Your OCD. 6. How to Use this Book to Help Change Your OCD. 7. Understanding the Role of Anxiety. 8. What Does My OCD Look Like? 9. Designing Prevention Exercises. 10. Making Progress with Prevention Exercises. 11. Overcoming Difficulties. 12. What is the Role of My Thoughts? 13. How Do I Challenge My Thoughts? 14. How Do I Test if My Thoughts Will Come True? 15. How to Maintain the Gains that I Have Made. Part 3: OCD and the Bigger Picture. 16. OCD and My Family. 17. OCD, School and Friends. 18. Where To Go for More Information. Appendices. References. Subject index. Author index.
'Breaking Free from OCD should be a staple book for OCD sufferers and their families. It ditches confusing medical jargon in order to give constructive and helpful information and advice. It is the kind of book which I wish I had owned when my OCD was at its worst, one which shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and shows you how to get there.'Joe Wells, author of Touch and Go Joe: An Adolescent's Experience of OCD'Do you have troublesome habits that get in the way? Do you have worries that bother you much more than you should? THIS BOOK MAY BE FOR YOU. The hardest thing for anyone to control is their own mind. This book points the way, to you and to those close to you, to free yourself from OCD.' - James F. Leckman, MD, Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology, Director of Research, Child Study Center, Yale University'In this marvelous book the authors provide the key information that teens and families need about OCD and its treatment. Highly recommended not only for patients but also for practitioners looking for material to use in their practices.'- John S. March, MD, MPH, Professor and Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program for Child Affective & Anxiety Disorders, Duke University
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