OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from OCD

Description

The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
By Bruce Hyman and Cherry Pedrick

This book presents an intensive, self-directed programme that allows individuals to learn how to block, alter, delay, and postpone rituals, reduce fears, and change unhealthy thought patterns.

Book Synopsis
Since its first publication in 1999, the OCD Workbook has become among the most trusted and recommended OCD resources available. More than 40,000 copies have provided help and hope to people with the disorder, and therapists have come to regard the book as a useful adjunct to their private practices. This fully revised and expanded edition offers the latest findings on the causes and most effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It includes helpful information on medications and shows readers how they can calm their impulses through techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. This new edition will help you:

• Use self-assessment tools to identify your symptoms and their severity
• Create and implement a recovery strategy using cognitive behavioral self-help tools and techniques
• Learn about the most effective medications and medical treatments
• Find the right professional help and access needed support for your recovery
• Maintain your progress and prevent future relapse

Additional Information
This is the third edition of the book, published in December 2010

Product details
Paperback: 331 pages
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Language English
ISBN-10: 1572249218
ISBN-13: 978-1572249219
Product Dimensions: 25.3 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm