Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parent series: OCD
As a parent to a teen with OCD, are you often asking yourself, “What can I be doing to get my teen to stop doing these compulsions?” Removing privileges is NOT helpful to your teenager’s ability to manage their OCD, mental health, or treatment...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parent series: OCD
Teens work as hard as they can in school. Getting into college is hard and getting straight A’s is unfortunately almost expected for applicants. This immense pressure that your teen is under can make him extremely focused on doing everything perfectly, paying...
Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parent series: OCD
If you’ve read our blogs before, you’re probably familiar with the term OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Today we’re talking about a specific subset of OCD in a specific age range – Child and adolescent contamination OCD. There are many different types of OCD,...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Interpersonal problems, Parent series: general parenting, Parent series: OCD
Dr. Zurita Ona’s recently published book discusses parenting skills that they may be especially helpful for parents of teens who seem to have an emotional switch that turns to the max in response to small triggers. One of the core skills emphasizes appreciation of...
Empirically supported treatments, Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parent series: OCD
If your child is struggling with OCD symptoms it can be a challenging time for you, your kid, and your family. Whether they are newly diagnosed, or have received treatment previously, you have some decisions to make for what kind of treatment they will need to get...
