Description: The OCD Workbook, Third Edition offers the latest findings on the causes and most effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It includes helpful information on medications and shows readers how they can calm their impulses through techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Brief description: Bruce M. Hyman, PhD, LCSW, is a Florida licensed clinical social worker and board-certified diplomate in clinical social work who earned his masters and doctoral degrees from Florida State University. For the past twenty-three years, he has maintained an active private practice specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. In 1992 he established the OCD Resource Center of Florida to offer comprehensive services to adults and children with OCD and related anxiety disorders from all over the North and South America.
Today he is one of the most sought-after clinicians treating OCD and anxiety disorders in the United States. He is coauthor of The OCD Workbook.
Review Quotes:
"This book offers a clear explanation of the modern treatment of OCD. I personally expect to recommend it to many of my OCD patients. It contains clear, step-by-step procedures for exposure and ritual prevention that are fundamental parts of what we know to be the most powerful treatment for OCD. In addition, I was pleased to find step-by-step procedures and examples of how to use cutting-edge cognitive techniques. The book offers clear suggestions for working with a variety of forms of OCD, including scrupulosity, hit and run, and hoarding problems. This book should be helpful to people who need to do self-directed treatment as well as to therapists who can use the examples and steps to treat OCD effectively."
--James M. Claiborn, Ph.D., ABPP, psychologist and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation