How to Deal with OCD: A 5-step, CBT-based plan for overcoming obsessive-compulsive disorder - Softcover

Forrester, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473601312 ISBN 13: 9781473601314

Verlag: Sheldon Press, 2015

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A practical and supportive guide to dealing with OCD that will help you transform your daily life using cognitive behavioral therapy.

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Dr Elizabeth Forrester is an independent Consultant Clinical Psychologist. As a research therapist in a post funded by the Wellcome Trust at the University of Oxford, she worked for several years with Professor Paul Salkovskis before taking up the post of Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders & Trauma (South London & Maudsley NHS Trust) where she specialised in the treatment of OCD and related difficulties. In addition to her regular clinical work, supervision and teaching engagements, Dr Forrester has made several contributions to national media including House of Obsessive-Compulsives on Channel 4 television, a Radio 4 Woman's Hour feature on hoarding and various publications.

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OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a common and debilitating condition characterised by frequent unwanted and unpleasant thoughts, images, doubts or urges which produce worry and the compulsive desire to carry out a behaviour aimed at reducing anxiety. Whether OCD affects you a little or a lot, it can really impact on your psychological well-being and ability to enjoy life. Don't allow OCD to rule your life any longer!

By picking up this book you've made the first move towards having a better life. This complete self-help program helps you put theory into practice and reveals its effectiveness through stories from people just like you who have used this approach to turn their lives around. Using the STEP system - a structured, CBT-based approach that delivers both support and proven techniques - you can learn a new way of responding to obsessive thoughts and compulsive urges so they have less power and influence over you, and develop the skills you need to live your life free from OCD. Written by an expert author with many years of clinical experience, this book will help you get a better understanding of your OCD so you can begin to transform your daily life.


Dr Elizabeth Forrester is an independent Consultant Clinical Psychologist with more than 25 years experience. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and appears regularly in the press, on radio and on TV, where she specialises in dealing with OCD and related difficulties.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sheldon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1473601312
• ISBN 13: 9781473601314
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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