Parenting kids with OCD: A guide to understanding and supporting your child with obsessive-compulsive disorder “provides parents with a comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder, its symptoms, types, and presentation in children and teens. The treatment of OCD is explained, and guidelines on how to both find appropriate help and best support one’s child is provided. Family accommodation is the rule, not the exception, when it comes to childhood OCD; yet, higher accommodating is associated with a worsening of the child’s symptoms and greater levels of familial stress. Parents who have awareness of how they can positively or negatively impact their child’s OCD can benefit their child’s outcome. Case examples are included to illustrate the child’s experience with OCD and what effective treatment looks like…” -publisher
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