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The ACT Workbook for OCD: Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Exposure Skills to Live Well with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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Stand up to your OCD! The ACT Workbook for OCD combines evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP) for the most up-to-date, effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

If you’re one of millions of people who suffer from OCD, you may experience obsessive, intrusive, or even disturbing thoughts. You may engage in compulsive or ritualistic behaviors, such as checking to make sure you’ve locked the front door, or endlessly washing your hands for fear of germs or contamination. And you may be tempted to give up if treatment just doesn’t work for you.

Whether you’ve just received a diagnosis, or have suffered for years, this workbook can help. Using the powerful and proven-effective treatments in this guide, you’ll learn what type of OCD you suffer from (such as harm OCD), how to identify the underlying mechanisms of your OCD, move through triggering incidents while staying present and connected to your values, be more aware and flexible, tolerate uncertainty, and commit to behaviors that ultimately allow you to lead a full, rewarding life. Once you realize what really matters to you, you’ll find the motivation needed to start on the path to psychological well-being.

If you’re ready to be courageous, take a risk, and stand up to your OCD symptoms, this workbook can help guide you, every step of the way.

ISBN-13: 9781684032891

Media Type: Paperback(Workbook)

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Publication Date: 06-01-2020

Pages: 232

Product Dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Marisa T. Mazza, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and founder of choicetherapy psychological services, inc. She has utilized evidence-based treatments to help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety for over fifteen years. She created and operates an individual therapy practice and intensive outpatient program in San Francisco, CA. Mazza and her team integrate evidence-based treatments—such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), exposure response and prevention (ERP), and compassion-focused therapy (CFT)—to assist adults and adolescents in changing their relationship with obsessions and compulsions in order to live vitally. She is on the board of OCD SF Bay Area (the International OCD Foundation’s local affiliate), president of the San Francisco Bay Area Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and faculty in the department of education at the University of San Francisco. Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is founder and senior clinical consultant of the McLean OCD Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.), and assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She also founded and directs the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety, and is coauthor of The Joy of Parenting (with Amy Murrell) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents with ACT (with Koa Whittingham). She lives near Boston, MA, with her family and two therapy dogs, Doog and Peach.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Introduction Living Fully and Freely with OCD 1

Chapter 1 What Is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? 13

Chapter 2 Clarifying Your Values 41

Chapter 3 Letting Go of Control 63

Chapter 4 Acceptance 81

Chapter 5 Mindfulness 87

Chapter 6 Hooked on Thoughts 99

Chapter 7 Unhooking from Your Thoughts and Making a Choice 129

Chapter 8 Cultivating Self-Compassion 137

Chapter 9 Getting to Know Your Core Fear 153

Chapter 10 Setting the Intention to Live Boldly 167

Chapter 11 Taking a Courageous Stance 179

Chapter 12 Living a Values-Based Life 197

Acknowledgments 201

Appendix Sample Exposure Exercises 203

References 209