Overcoming Books
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The bestselling self-help guide Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has been combined with Taking Control of OCD: Inspirational stories of hope and recovery to offer the reader an effective and appealing self-help package. These two titles not only set out practical techniques to overcome obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but offer inspiration to the reader to confront the challenges they may face on the road to recovery.
Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), an evidence-based therapy recommended by the NHS. It provides:
-Useful information about the disorder
-A step-by-step self-help programme based on CBT
Taking Control of OCD contains real-life stories written by those with first-hand experience of OCD. Each story has been especially selected by Dr David Veale and Rob Willson and together they reflect the broad range of different experiences and stories of OCD. Each story sheds light on the condition, and offers powerful insights into what helps and, most importantly, inspiration to those trying to beat it.
How you can stop worrying about your health and enjoy life
'This book not only helps sufferers to better understand the nature of the problem, but also provides them with the skills necessary to overcome it and to regain quality of life'
Professor Paul Salkovskis, Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. For some the anxiety becomes severe and persistent. This can involve spending many hours checking for symptoms, seeking reassurance from others, surfing the internet for information about different diseases, or repeatedly visiting the doctor. It is distressing for them and for everyone around them.
In fact, health anxiety can be very successfully treated with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) - the approach taken in this self-help guide. Using a structured, step-by-step approach the authors explain how the problem develops, how to recognise what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it. This book includes:
- Questionnaires, case studies and exercises
- Chapters on fear of death and on medication
Overcoming self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, boith psychological and physical.
READING WELL
This book is recommended by the national Reading Well scheme for England and Wales delivered by The Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians with funding from Arts Council England and Wellcome.
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Series Editor: Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper