Freeing Your Child from Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder
by Tamar Chansky
This wonderful book is for the parent(s) of a child with OCD. It
is both incredibly easy to read and extremely practical and useful.
Chansky does a great job explaining OCD in laymen's terms and also
providing illustrations that capture the essence of OCD.
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Up and Down the
Worry Hill
by Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D
A very simple book for small children. Wagner's main character,
Casey, is a young boy with OCD. He has many different “types” of
OCD rituals, such as checking, counting, and washing. Most
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Kids Like Me
by Constance H. Foster
This very short but informative book essentially contains five
short stories about five children, all with different “types” of
OCD. Kids Like Me is geared towards the early adolescent/older
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The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
by Dr. Judith Rapoport
Although The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing lacks information
about more current research and medication due to the date of its
publication (1989), the author clearly, and in language the layperson
can understand, outlines evidence supporting the biological basis
of OCD and the effectiveness of CBT and medication in its treatment.
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