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

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To get a score that will indicate how much the compulsions are interfering in your life, simply add up the numbers that you have circled for each of these questions.

Personally I feel Anxiety UK offers a fantastic service which fills that much needed gap between being referred to NHS and your actual appointment time which nowadays due to Covid can be up to a year in waiting time. Since its first publication in 1999, the OCD Workbook has become among the most trusted and recommended OCD resources available. I think this book is great for those who would like a better understanding of how OCD works or those who don’t have access to professional help. One thing that you may find helpful and interesting to do before you start to fight back against OCD is to complete a brief questionnaire (see the Appendix section).

The book has given me a clearer, better and deeper understanding of how OCD works and more importantly how to challenge it. It you want to know how to empower your child/teen to live their life to the fullest in the face of anxiety, this is the book! Now that I have a better understanding of how it works, I was able to explain the disease to my family, who of course were still adamant that “it’s all in my head”. The OCD Workbook has helped thousands of people with OCD break the bonds of troubling OCD symptoms and regain the hope of a productive life. Instead, parents are shown how to replace their own accommodating behaviors (which allow anxiety to flourish) with supportive responses that demonstrate both acceptance of children's difficulties and confidence in their ability to cope.

The therapist appointments were a nightmare and were incorrectly set up via Anxiety UK, he never got the perks or discounts for the mindfulness app and everyone I spoke to was either completely clueless and when I spoke to the manager he was so rude that I worried for the vulnerable people using the service! He is editor of the scientific journal Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Parents will learn how to alleviate their children's anxiety by changing the way they themselves respond to their children's symptoms-importantly, parents are not required to impose changes on their children's behavior. Using the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy, which is the proven method for helping those with OCD, it offers teenagers a structured plan of treatment which can be read alone, or with a parent, counsellor or mental health worker. A really helpful guide for everyone with OCD, or for anxiety sufferers like myself who often find themselves exhibiting OCD symptoms.Well organized and relatable, Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD is an indispensable guide to the SPACE program -- a unique, powerful, evidence-based method of treating childhood anxiety.

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. Through a period of some significant challenge, the services offered by Anxiety UK has been fantastic, and whilst there is a long road head, progress is positive and forward. This book had a lot of useful explanations of OCD and activities to try and measure your OCD problems and self-treat it.An extensive and practical guide to overcoming OCD through CBT We all occasionally worry that we might have left the gas on or the window open, not washed our hands thoroughly or forgotten to lock the front door. Obsessive worries can be a drain on daily life, but this practical guide, written by three leading Cognitive Behavioural Therapy experts, enables you to make sense of your symptoms, and gives a simple plan to help you conquer OCD.