Designed for kids and teens aged 10-16, this guide empowers those with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to harness their strengths and effectively manage their anxiety. It offers practical strategies to help young readers navigate their challenges, promoting resilience and success both academically and personally.
Focusing on practical strategies, this guide provides parents with effective methods to alleviate children's excessive anxieties and phobias. It emphasizes fostering interaction and promoting family-oriented solutions, aiming to help kids become happier and more worry-free. The second edition enhances its approach with updated tools and insights for managing anxiety in children.
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Parenting Kids With OCD provides parents with a comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder, its symptoms, types, and presentation in children and teens. The treatment of OCD is explained, and guidelines on how to both find appropriate help and best support one's child are provided. Family accommodation is the rule, not the exception, when it comes to childhood OCD; yet, higher accommodating is associated with a worsening of the child's symptoms and greater levels of familial stress. Parents who have awareness of how they can positively or negatively impact their child's OCD can benefit their child's outcome. Case examples are included to illustrate the child's experience with OCD and what effective treatment looks like. OCD worsens when there is increased stress for the child; therefore, stress management is an essential component for improvement. Parents will learn how to manage stress in themselves and encourage effective stress management for their children.
It's hard for teens to be happy when they've created a very narrow window of what defines success. The goal of this helpful book is to encourage teens to maintain their desire to achieve without striving to always be perfect, and to appreciate and love who they are just as they are, not for what they do or accomplish.