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The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD: Unhook Yourself and Live Life to the Full Spiral-Bound | December 19, 2019

Patricia Zurita Ona, Psy.D, Louise Gardner (Illustrated by), Stuart Ralph (Foreword by)

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Gives teens the skills to manage OCD in everyday situations using ACTThis workbook is the first to use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for teens aged 12-18 struggling with OCD. It helps guide the reader to overcome compulsive and avoidant behaviours in everyday situations, with top tips, examples of other teens' experiences and lots of fun and practical activities throughout.

This workbook, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), teaches teens with OCD new skills to handle the stream of pesky obsessions that show up in their mind.

It presents the Choice Point - a tool to help teens choose how to handle those tricky moments when dealing with unwanted thoughts. Chapter by chapter, teens learn powerful skills to unhook from their obsessions, including exposure exercises and strategies for accepting their emotions, and complete activities to help them overcome their compulsions, avoidant behaviors, and requests for accommodations.

With real-life examples and tons of fun activities, this workbook shows that fears, worry and nervousness are a part of life and gives teens the skills to choose how to respond to their obsessions and move towards the stuff they really care about. Making applying ACT and ERP skills fun, it encourages them to face their fears and live life to the full.

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1787750833
Item Weight: 1.1 lbs
Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.6 x 9.6 inches
Dr. Zurita Ona has crafted an impressive, easy-to-read, and extremely informative book to support adolescents with OCD. Following an ACT framework, concepts are clearly presented, evidence-based, and likely to be of great help. -Eric Storch, Ph.D. McIngvale Presidential Endowed Chair & Professor, Vice Chair & Head of Psychology, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine

Patricia Zurita Ona is a clinical psychologist. She has written several books on emotional disorders and is based in California, USA.

Louise Gardner is an illustrator, also known as 'ACT Auntie', who combines her love of art with ACT. She is based in Somerset, UK.