Helping Families Manage Childhood OCD: Decreasing Conflict and Increasing Positive Interaction, Therapist Guide

Tara S. Peris; John Piacentini

Helping Families Manage Childhood OCD: Decreasing Conflict and Increasing Positive Interaction, Therapist Guide

Tara S. Peris and John Piacentini

Abstract

Childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a complex condition that is often accompanied by high levels of family stress and strain. Families of youth with OCD face a unique set of difficulties in that they often are intimately involved in their children’s symptoms. This pattern of responding to OCD, frequently referred to as accommodation, comes in many forms, and for most families, it occurs daily. Research suggests that accommodation is accompanied by increased levels of family distress, anxiety, and conflict, which, when high enough, can undermine successful OCD treatment. Although evidence-based treatments exist for childhood OCD, few protocols offer strategies for treating these more complex family presentations. This program offers an empirically supported approach for managing childhood OCD complicated by poor family functioning. It identifies specific family features that may contribute to treatment nonresponse in childhood OCD, and provides clinicians with an innovative set of strategies for addressing them. By focusing on emotion-regulation strategies and family-problem-solving exercises, families learn to troubleshoot difficult OCD episodes in an effective and supportive manner.

Keywords: family therapy, childhood OCD, emotion regulation, problem solving, family conflict

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Jul 2016

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199357604

Published online:: Sep 2016

DOI:: 10.1093/med:psych/9780199357604.001.0001

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Tara S. Peris, author Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute, UCLA

John Piacentini, author Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute, UCLA

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