Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Step 1. OCD 101: learning tabout the symptoms, causes, and treatments -- Step 2. analyzing your own OCD symptoms -- Step 3. understanding how OCD works -- Step 4. customizing your treatment plan -- Step 5. strengthening your resolve to move forward -- Step 6. challenging OCD at its foundation: thinking errors -- Step 7. tackling avoidance behavior with situational exposure -- Stpe 8. confronting obsessional thoughts, doubts, and images -- Step 9. defying your compulsive urges -- Step 10. ending your program and staying well -- Resources -- Index -- About the author.
Summary:
"Tens of thousands of readers are living freer, happier lives thanks to the clinically proven strategies in this book. Now thoroughly updated based on the latest science, the workbook helps OCD sufferers use the powerful techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)--the most effective treatment for the disorder--to achieve lasting recovery. Examples and stories of people with a wide range of obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviors illustrate the 10 steps of the program and assure readers they are not alone. Numerous worksheets and other practical tools can be downloaded and printed for repeated use. The second edition is revised throughout with cutting-edge strategies for coping with unwanted thoughts that can't be eliminated completely, plus new learning techniques drawn from brain research"---Provided by publisher.
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