
Obsessions and Compulsions
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
Chapter 1 provides a general overview of OCD and uses metaphors to describe and define obsessions and compulsions and to illustrate the role of doubting in many individuals’ experiences of ...
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Assessment and Formulation of Mental Contamination
Stanley Rachman, Anna Coughtrey, Roz Shafran, and Adam Radomsky
in Oxford Guide to the Treatment of Mental Contamination
In all modern scales designed to assess OCD, contamination fear and compulsive washing emerge as major factors. However, few of them are cognitive rich and they were constructed before the ...
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Introduction
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
This chapter introduces the use of storytelling and metaphor in the treatment of OCD, and how these methods can be integrated into clinical treatment. The overall aims and goals of this ...
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Implications of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Mental Contamination
Stanley Rachman, Anna Coughtrey, Roz Shafran, and Adam Radomsky
in Oxford Guide to the Treatment of Mental Contamination
The close connection between theory and derived therapy is a strength of the cognitive approach to anxiety disorders, and is well illustrated in the theory and therapy for mental ...
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Session 11: E/RP: Top of the Hierarchy / Relapse Prevention
Jennifer B. Freeman and Abbe Marrs Garcia
in Family Based Treatment for Young Children With OCD: Therapist Guide
Chapter 13 outlines the eleventh session of the OCD treatment program. This session includes an E/RP task, and review of the hierarchy and cognitive strategies. Relapse prevention, as well ...
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Session 10: E/RP: Top of the Hierarchy / Preparation for Termination
Jennifer B. Freeman and Abbe Marrs Garcia
in Family Based Treatment for Young Children With OCD: Therapist Guide
Chapter 12 discusses the tenth session of treatment. This session will begin addressing OCD symptoms at the top of the child’s hierarchy, as well as discussing family problem solving ...
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Session 2: Laying the Groundwork (Parents Only)
Jennifer B. Freeman and Abbe Marrs Garcia
in Family Based Treatment for Young Children With OCD: Therapist Guide
Chapter 4 outlines the second treatment session. Again, this session is only attended by the parents. This chapter addresses therapy process issues and misperceptions, the initial ...
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Session 5
John Piacentini, Audra Langley, and Tami Roblek
in It's Only a False Alarm: Workbook
Chapter 5 outlines the fifth session of the treatment program where the child will rerate their symptom list and practice a further exposure exercise. OCD thoughts are explored in more ...
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Session 2
John Piacentini, Audra Langley, and Tami Roblek
in It's Only a False Alarm: Workbook
Chapter 2 explores the second session of treatment, the use of the OCD thermometer, and the development of a personal symptom list. ...

Session 4
John Piacentini, Audra Langley, and Tami Roblek
in It's Only a False Alarm: Workbook
Chapter 4 presents a plan for the fourth session of treatment, uses the Child/Adolescent Global Improvement Rating to evaluate progress that has been made, and considers cognitive ...
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Thinking Processes Associated with Exposure Therapy
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
Chapter 4 presents stories that can be used in treatment to reinforce ideas about what clients should be thinking when they engage in ERP work. Stories presented here address how one should ...
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Norma Morrison and David Westbrook
in Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy
Chapter 5 discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the DSM-IV-TR definition of OCD, cognitive models and key cognitions of OCD, as well as suggesting behavioural experiments to help ...
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Session 8: Continuing ERP/Differentiating OCD vs. non-OCD Behaviors
John Piacentini, Audra Langley, and Tami Roblek
in Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm, Therapist Guide
Session eight discusses ways of dealing with difficult exposures at the top of the child's symptom hierarchy, and explores ways of differentiating between OCD and non-OCD behaviors, and ...
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Session 2: Creating a Symptom Hierarchy/Psychoeducation
John Piacentini, Audra Langley, and Tami Roblek
in Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm, Therapist Guide
The second session of treatment introduces the use of the OCD thermometerand symptom hierarchy to monitor symptom progress. The impact of the child's OCD on individual and family ...
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Helping Families Manage Childhood OCD: Decreasing Conflict and Increasing Positive Interaction, Therapist Guide
Tara S. Peris and John Piacentini
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 ...
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Conclusions
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
This chapter summarises how the stories detailed throughout the title can be integrated into OCD treatment by a therapist, and encourages readers to develop their own personal stories to ...
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In Defense of ERP as an OCD Treatment
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
Chapter 10 explores the legitimacy of ERP as an effective way of treating OCD symptoms and how ERP can serve as a medium by which is forged a strong belief in one’s own self-efficacy and ...
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When a Child Has OCD
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
Chapter 6 explores a set of stories are geared to families with younger children who are diagnosed with OCD. Several of these stories are aimed directly at the parents as part of their ...
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Trust
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
Chapter 7 discusses trust. Trust is of paramount importance to the success of nearly all types of therapies for all types of psychiatric difficulties. This is nowhere more evident than in ...
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Lapses and Relapses
Allen H. Weg
in OCD Treatment Through Storytelling: A Strategy for Successful Therapy
Chapter 8 discusses lapses and relapses, and includes stories that are designed to be used by therapists in helping their clients keep their perspective about “bumps in the road,” and learn ...
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