Understanding OCD: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, caregivers, clinicians and mental health professionals need in order to understand and treat childhood OCD. It covers origins, symptoms and related illnesses and explains how OCD is diagnosed. The book also suggests ways to maximise the outcomes of treatment, what to do when treatment doesn't work, and how to help manage OCD in children at school and in the home.

Adam Lewin is Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences at the University of South Florida. He is also the Director of the OCD, Anxiety & Related Disorders Behavioral Treatment Program at the University of South Florida. Eric Storch is Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, and Psychology, at the University of South Florida. He is also the Director of Research for Developmental Pediatrics at All Children's Hospital John Hopkins Medicine. In 2010 he won the University of South Florida's Outstanding Research Achievement Award.