Description: Sexual Obsessions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder provides clinicians with the information and guidance needed to help clients experiencing unwanted and intrusive thoughts of a sexual nature. Opening with background information on sexual obsessions and OCD, including assessment and differential diagnosis, Williams and Wetterneck then offer a complete, step-by-step manual describing treatment using a combination of empirically-supported CBT strategies, such as exposure and response prevention, cognitive therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy, as well as useful mindfulness techniques. The book concludes with a discussion of relationship issues that commonly result from sexually-themed OCD, and how therapists can tackle these problems. Sexual Obsessions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is an essential resource for clinicians who treat OCD, as well as students and trainees from across the mental health professions.
Brief description: Chad T. Wetterneck is a clinical director and supervisor at Rogers Memorial Hospital. Over the past four years, he has served at the Co-Director of Research at the Houston OCD Program and served on the training and research committee for Obsessive Compulsive Foundation of Texas. Wetterneck has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters focused on OCD and OC-spectrum conditions and presented at many peer-reviewed national and international conferences.