Poskitt, H: The Essential Guide to OCD -

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Résumé :
Indispensable practical guide to help relatives and friends of those with OCD understand the condition.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgments 8 Chapter 1: Introduction 9 What is OCD? 9 How Common is OCD? 13 Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis 14 What Triggers OCD? 18 Public Awareness 30 Chapter 2: OCD Obsessions 33 Contamination 33 Causing Harm to Others or Self 34 Symmetry 35 Safe Numbers and Good Words 35 Scrupulosity/Religiosity 35 Sexual Themes 36 Rumination 39 Are OCD Sufferers Disabled? 40 Chapter 3: Compulsions and Rituals 41 Fear of Contamination 41 Fear of Illness 54 Fear of Harming Others 58 Checking 58 Repetitive Action Rituals 63 Chapter 4: Hoarding 67 A Separate Condition? 70 Treatment 75 Chapter 5: Types of Treatment For OCD 83 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) 83 Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) 85 Counselling/Psychotherapy 86 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) 89 Alternative Treatments 89 Medication 90 Chapter 6: Other Treatments for OCD 93 Hospital Treatment 93 Neurosurgery 94 Treatments to Avoid 95 Public Access to Treatment 99 Chapter 7: Advice for Pa rents OF Children and Teenagers/Students with OCD 103 Diagnosis 105 Educating GPs 105 Family Dynamics 105 How to Treat OCD in Children and Teenagers 108 Coping Tips 121 Educating Schools 122 Helping a Teenaged Student 124 Chapter 8: Independent Adults with OCD: Advice to Pa rents, Friends and Pa rtners 129 Useful Tips 129 Misdiagnosis 134 Coping 136 What Help is Available? 137 Chapter 9: Advice for Young Ca rers 139 Looking After Yourself 140 What to Do to Help 141 Chapter 10: Employment and the Workplace 145 Employers - UK 145 To Declare or Not to Declare 148 Employers - Australia 150 Employers - USA 152 Endpaper 155 Appendix A: OCD and the Brain 157 Appendix B: Genetics 159 Appendix C: Pa rents and Their Children 160 Appendix D: Counselling and Psychotherapy 162 Bibliography 163 Useful Websites and Organizations 166 Notes 171