Can I tell you about OCD?: A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals
No. of pages 48
Published: 2013
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Meet Katie - a teenager with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Katie invites readers to learn about OCD from her perspective, helping them to understand what it is, how her obsessions and compulsions affect her daily life, and how people around her can help.
With illustrations throughout, this will be an ideal introduction to OCD for both young people and older readers. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support someone with the condition and will be an excellent way to start a conversation about OCD, in the classroom or at home.
This book is part of a book series called Can I Tell You About? .
There are 48 pages in this book. This is a guide book. This book was published 2013 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers .
Amita Jassi is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and related disorders clinic for young people at the Maudsley, London. Her clinical practice and research has focussed on OCD, BDD and related disorders since 2006. She lives in London. Amita Jassi has worked with young people with OCD for the past six years and is currently a senior Clinical Psychologist at the National Specialist OCD clinic at the Maudsley Hospital. She lives in London. Sarah Hull is a London-based illustrator, translator and freelance editor. She studied Fine Art in Hamburg and has designed theatre posters and exhibited her animal paintings in Oxford, London and Hamburg.
This book has the following chapters: Acknowledgements. Foreword by Isobel Heyman. 1. Introducing Katie, who has OCD. 2. Obsessions. 3. Compulsions. 4. Avoidance. 5. How I was diagnosed. 6. Why have I got OCD?. 7. How OCD affects school. 8. How OCD affects home. 9. How OCD affects friendships. 10. Treatments for OCD. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). 11. Treatments for OCD. Medication. 12. How family and friends can help. 13. How I can be helped at school. Recommended reading, websites and organisations. Common obsessions and compulsions. Other disorders related to OCD.
