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Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say "No Way" — and Parents Say "Way to Go"

Book · 2006 · John S. March, MD, MPH (child and adolescent psychiatrist; childhood OCD researcher) with Christine M. Benton. Guilford Press

Give your OCD a silly name. Then tell it no. 🗣️

Who it's for

For a kid who feels bossed around by rituals, or a parent who doesn't know how to help, this book turns the problem into something you can fight as a team.

Overwhelmed, bossed around→Empowered, on the same team

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What it is

An eight-step cognitive-behavioural programme for children and teens with OCD, written for young people and their parents together. It teaches kids to externalise OCD, giving it a nickname and treating it as a bully separate from themselves, then to 'talk back' and gradually resist its demands, while parents learn how to support rather than accommodate rituals.

Where to find it

In print and ebook from Guilford Press and major booksellers; audiobook on Audible.

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Before you start

Heads up: Describes children's OCD compulsions.

Age: Ages 8+ with a parent

The mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 50

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