Book contents
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Reviews
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is OCD and Is It Really a Problem?
- 2 Who Gets OCD and How Would Anyone Know if They Had It?
- 3 Types and Presentation of OCD
- 4 Drug Treatment
- 5 Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD
- 6 Children and Adolescents with OCD
- 7 Old Treatments, Modern Developments, New Research, and Potential Treatments for the Future
- 8 Other Conditions Which Appear Similar to OCD
- 9 What Can Family and Carers Do to Help a Person with OCD?
- 10 What Can You Do to Help Cope with Your OCD?
- 11 General Principles of Treatment
- 12 How to Better Manage Your Symptoms Before and During Treatment
- 13 Overcoming Fears of Contamination
- 14 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Failure to Act
- 15 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Your Own Actions (or Thoughts)
- 16 Overcoming ‘Taboo’ Obsessive Thoughts
- 17 Loss of Something (Objects or Part of ‘Self’)
- 18 Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Slowness, Perfectionism and Symmetry
- 19 Overcoming Obsessive Ruminations (Sometimes Known as ‘Pure O’)
- 20 When the Treatment Doesn’t Go According to Plan or Even If It Does, What to Do Next
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Resources
- References
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2022
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Reviews
- Everything You Need to Know about OCD
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is OCD and Is It Really a Problem?
- 2 Who Gets OCD and How Would Anyone Know if They Had It?
- 3 Types and Presentation of OCD
- 4 Drug Treatment
- 5 Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD
- 6 Children and Adolescents with OCD
- 7 Old Treatments, Modern Developments, New Research, and Potential Treatments for the Future
- 8 Other Conditions Which Appear Similar to OCD
- 9 What Can Family and Carers Do to Help a Person with OCD?
- 10 What Can You Do to Help Cope with Your OCD?
- 11 General Principles of Treatment
- 12 How to Better Manage Your Symptoms Before and During Treatment
- 13 Overcoming Fears of Contamination
- 14 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Failure to Act
- 15 Fear of Harm to Self or Others Due to Your Own Actions (or Thoughts)
- 16 Overcoming ‘Taboo’ Obsessive Thoughts
- 17 Loss of Something (Objects or Part of ‘Self’)
- 18 Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Slowness, Perfectionism and Symmetry
- 19 Overcoming Obsessive Ruminations (Sometimes Known as ‘Pure O’)
- 20 When the Treatment Doesn’t Go According to Plan or Even If It Does, What to Do Next
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Resources
- References
- Index
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- Everything You Need to Know About OCD , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022