The ACT Workbook for OCD: Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Exposure Skills to Live Well with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Softcover

Mazza PsyD, Marisa T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 168403289X ISBN 13: 9781684032891

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2020

Synopsis

Stand up to OCD and take back your life. The ACT Workbook for OCD combines evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP) to help you break free from intrusive thoughts, compulsions, and the cycle of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

If you’re one of millions of people who struggle with OCD, you may experience obsessive, intrusive, or even disturbing thoughts. You may engage in compulsive or ritualistic behaviors, such as repeatedly checking to make sure you’ve locked the front door, washing your hands because of fears about germs or contamination, seeking reassurance, or performing mental rituals. And if you’ve tried to stop these patterns without success, you may wonder: Why can’t I just let these thoughts go? How do I stop giving in to compulsions?

Whether you’ve just received an OCD diagnosis or have struggled for years, this practical workbook can help. Using proven-effective ACT and ERP skills, you’ll learn how OCD works, identify the patterns that keep you stuck, and change the way you respond to intrusive thoughts, anxiety, triggers, and uncertainty.

With this workbook, you’ll learn how to:

• Understand your OCD, including harm OCD and other common OCD subtypes
• Break the cycle of intrusive thoughts and compulsions using ACT and ERP
• Face triggers without relying on rituals, reassurance, or avoidance
• Tolerate uncertainty and make room for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings
• Build mindfulness and psychological flexibility so you can stay present when anxiety spikes
• Clarify your values and choose meaningful actions based on what matters to you, not what OCD demands

Rather than trying to eliminate every unwanted thought or uncomfortable feeling, The ACT Workbook for OCD helps you develop a different relationship with them. You’ll learn to move through triggering situations while staying present and connected to your values, become more psychologically flexible, and build the confidence to make choices without letting OCD call the shots.

If you’re ready to stand up to OCD, break free from obsessive-compulsive cycles, and start living a fuller, more rewarding life, this workbook can guide you every step of the way.

About this title

About the Author

Marisa T. Mazza, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and founder of choicetherapy psychological services, inc. She has utilized evidence-based treatments to help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety for over fifteen years. She created and operates an individual therapy practice and intensive outpatient program in San Francisco, CA. Mazza and her team integrate evidence-based treatments—such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), exposure response and prevention (ERP), and compassion-focused therapy (CFT)—to assist adults and adolescents in changing their relationship with obsessions and compulsions in order to live vitally. She is on the board of OCD SF Bay Area (the International OCD Foundation’s local affiliate), president of the San Francisco Bay Area Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and faculty in the department of education at the University of San Francisco.

Foreword writer Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher who has worked to improve the psychological well-being of children, teens, and families for more than twenty years. She is assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry, where she specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and OCD.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 168403289X
• ISBN 13: 9781684032891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232