OCD treatment through storytelling : a strategy for successful therapy / Allen H. Weg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weg, Allen Howard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obsessive-compulsive disorder--Treatment.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Exposure therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Storytelling and metaphor are among the most effective and useful tools therapists can use to better identify with their clients, clearly explain a disorder to family members, and introduce new treatment options. Based on years of clinical work with clients with OCD and their families, OCD Treatment Through Storytelling contains dozens of stories that therapists can adapt and employ in their own practices to explain hard-to-grasp aspects of OCD and its most effective treatment, Exposure and Response Prevention. Through Allen Weg's engaging narratives, an experience at Toronto's CN Tower become

Contents:

Obsessions and compulsions

Exposure and response prevention therapy

The nuts and bolts of exposure therapy

Thinking processes associated with exposure therapy

When symptoms persist after exposure

When a child has OCD

Trust

Lapses and relapses

Special topics

In defense of ERP as an OCD treatment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-19-023164-5

1-283-13430-6

9786613134301

0-19-974559-5

OCLC:

731667693