CATALOGUES - Health - Health & Psychology - O.C.D.

Do you know about the Doomsayer? He's the guy dressed in ragged clothes, hanging around on street corners with a cardboard sign that reads, 'The End Is Near!' He's always ready to tell you that mobile phones cause cancer, air traffic fatalities are up this year, and locusts are poised to swarm the city. Having OCD is a lot like having this character living inside your head. He's with you all the time; he knows your deepest fears, and he's not afraid to use them. You try to brush him off at first, but he's so sure of himself, so per... read more

Most children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are diagnosed between the ages of ten and twelve-right on the cusp of their adolescent years. Yet, until now, there have been no resources available for the substantial population of teens suffering with the unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and rituals (compulsions) characteristic of OCD. The activities in this book help teens and parents work together to assess the severity of the symptoms and offer teens cognitive behavioural skills to overcome them. Teen readers learn essentia... read more

Timothy A. Sisemore is professor of counseling and psychology at Richmont Graduate University in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and maintains a private practice in clinical psychology. He specializes in treating anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Sisemore is the author of several books, including I Bet I Won't Fret

People who suffer from mental illness rarely do so alone. Their families and loved ones face their own set of unique challenges - problems that deserve their own resources and sources of support. This is the first book written specifically for the loved ones of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It helps readers examine how OCD affects their lives and offers a straightforward system for building a healthier, more constructive relationship with OCD sufferers.

An OCD specialist offers the first cognitive behavioral book to specifically address compulsive checkers, helping to eliminate or reduce obsessions of performing actions incorrectly, misspeaking, miswriting, or facing criticism or punishment for being at fault for fire, break-ins, flooding, or injury to others. Print advertising, 10-city radio tour. Mailing to 50,000 mental health and medical professionals.

Three compulsive hoarding experts team up to provide the first research-based cognitive behavorial treatment plan to help compulsives learn to recognize the problem, understand the treatment options, and learn gentle techniques to free themselves from this life-threatening disorder.

Fear of contamination leads washing sufferers to compulsively avoid places and situations that cause their anxiety - public washrooms, doorknobs, handshaking, and so on. This book helps readers to identify their specific ritualistic compulsion. Then it helps them to stop obsessing by experimenting with exposure to their fears. The book includes ways to troubleshoot particularly difficult situations and to educate the family and loved ones of OCD sufferers.

Fourth in this successful series, this book provides individuals who suffer from repetitive, unwanted thoughts, images or impulses with information and skills they can use to reduce their distress over and preoccupation with these thoughts. Although once thought to be a rare and unusual condition, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has become increasingly a part of everyday discourse as it has gathered more and more media attention. One facet of OCD that is just beginning to be widely known is that people with the disorder can... read more

This revised and updated edition of When Perfect Isn't Good Enough offers the benefits of the latest research to readers who dread making mistakes and feel that nothing they do is quite good enough.