The Ocd Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Hyman, Bruce M.; Pedrick, CherryEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
Publisher(s): New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Summary
This workbook presents an intensive, self-directed program that teaches reade how to block rituals, reduce fears, and change unhealthy thought patterns. The authors show readers how to assess themselves and enlist the help of family and friends and offer strategies for overcoming a variety of forms of OCD, including scrupulosity, hit and run, and hoarding problems.
Author Biography
Bruce M. Hyman, Ph.D., is in private practice in Hollywood, Florida and director of the OCD Resource Center of South Florida, specializing in the treatment of adults and children with OCD. Cherry Pedrick is a registered nurse and a freelance writer. She lives in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Who We Are | |
| How This Book Can Help You | |
| About This Book | |
| What Is OCD? | p. 7 |
| Basic Types of OCD | |
| OCD Through the Ages | |
| So You Have a Problem: What Is It? | p. 15 |
| A Closer Look at OCD | |
| What OCD Is Not | |
| The Symptoms of OCD | |
| How Is OCD Diagnosed? | |
| OCD and Shame | |
| Does OCD Run in Families? | |
| What Causes OCD? | |
| What Can Be Done? | p. 27 |
| Medication Therapy | |
| Cognitive-Behavior Therapy | |
| Psychotherapy | |
| Neurosurgery | |
| Unproven Treatments | |
| Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for OCD: The Self-Directed Program | p. 41 |
| Why ERP Works | |
| Exposure "In Vivo" | |
| Ritual Prevention | |
| Getting Ready for Change | |
| Preparing for Change | |
| Helping Your Family Get Ready for Change | |
| Preparing for the Challenge--Self-Assessment | p. 51 |
| Assessing Your OCD Problem | |
| Target Your Symptoms | |
| Your Intervention Strategy | p. 61 |
| Tips for Writing Your Personal Anxiety/Exposure List | |
| Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP): Step-by-Step | |
| Doing ERP for Some Common OCD Problems | |
| Imaginal Exposure | p. 85 |
| Doing Imaginal Exposure | |
| When Imaginal Exposure Doesn't Work | |
| Challenging Your Faulty Beliefs | p. 93 |
| The ABCDs of Faulty Beliefs | |
| Correcting Faulty Beliefs | |
| Additional Challenges to Faulty Beliefs | |
| What If My Beliefs Aren't Changing? | |
| Breaking Free from Pure Obsessions | p. 113 |
| The Nature of Pure Obsessions | |
| Anatomy of a Pure Obsession: Overview | |
| Four Steps to Breaking Free from Pure Obsessions | |
| Thought Habituation Exercises | |
| Dealing with Covert Rituals | |
| Scrupulosity: When OCD Gets Religious | p. 123 |
| What Is Scrupulosity? | |
| Differentiating Between Strong Religious Beliefs and Scrupulosity | |
| Hypermorality and Hyperresponsibility | |
| The Self-Directed Program for Scrupulosity | |
| Hyperresponsibility: Hit 'n Run OCD | p. 135 |
| Self-Directed Program for Hit 'n Run OCD | |
| Hoarding OCD | p. 145 |
| Self-Directed Program for Hoarding OCD | |
| Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Maintaining Your Gains and Managing Relapse | p. 153 |
| It's Not Working: Common Problems | |
| Relapse: It Will Happen! | |
| Make CBT a Part of Your General Lifestyle | |
| It Happens to Children Too | p. 163 |
| Children and Rituals: Could It Be OCD? | |
| Cleaning, Checking, Counting, and Children | |
| Help for Children with OCD | |
| Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococci (P.A.N.D.A.S.) | |
| OCD and Related Disorders | |
| Family Help for Children with OCD | |
| OCD and Company | p. 179 |
| Trichotillomania | |
| Body Dysmorphic Disorder | |
| Depression | |
| OCD Is a Family Affair | p. 187 |
| Support Starts with Each Family Member | |
| How Family Members Can Help the Person in the Self-Directed Program | |
| How to Deal with Obsessive Reassurance Seeking | |
| Additional Guidelines for Dealing with OCD in the Family | |
| Where to Get Help? | p. 199 |
| Professional Help for OCD | |
| Questions to Ask Prospective Therapists | |
| Support Groups | |
| Help in Cyberspace | |
| Appendix | p. 205 |
| A Brief Introduction to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for Family and Friends | |
| Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) | |
| Resources | p. 211 |
| References | p. 215 |
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