Chansky, Tamar Ellsas.

Freeing your child from obsessive-compulsive disorder : a powerful, practical program for parents of children and adolescents / Tamar E. Chansky ; illustrations by Phillip Stern. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : Threee Rivers Press, c2000. - xiii, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-337) and index.

Understanding OCD -- Cracking the code: visualizing the secret mechanisms of OCD -- Diagnosing OCD: the difference between OCD and normal behavior -- The course of OCD: what to expect -- Treatments for OCD -- The parents' role: roots and wings -- Good parenting skills to bring to OCD -- The OCD strategy: a battle plan -- Pressure points in OCD -- Coping with the diagnosis of OCD: taking care of yourself -- Contamination fears -- Checking / repeating / redoing: doubting your own senses -- Just right: evenness, ordering, symmetry, numbers, and hoarding -- Intrusive thoughts and imagined impulses: harm, scrupulosity, and sexual thoughts -- Managing OCD in the larger context -- Seeing your child through OCD.

ISBN: 0812931173 (pbk.) : $14.95 9780812931174 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children--Treatment.

LC Class. No.: RJ506.O25 / C48 2000b

Dewey Class. No.: 618.92/8522706