Amita Jassi

Can I tell you about OCD?

A guide for friends, family and professionals
Illustrator: Hull, Sarah

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Katie invites readers to learn about OCD from her perspective, helping them to understand what it is and how her obsessions and compulsions affect her daily life. This is an ideal, illustrated introduction to OCD for both young people and older readers. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support someone with the condition.

Produktdetails

• Can I tell you about...?
• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 120g
• ISBN-13: 9781849053815
• ISBN-10: 1849053812
• Artikelnr.: 36920280

Autorenporträt

Dr Amita Jassi is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorder Service for Children and Young People (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust). She lives in London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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.