Helping Your Child Overcome OCD: A practical guide for parents who see their teen stuck in fear, rituals, and constant doubt-and want a clearer way to help at home.
Language: English
Published by Felix Karma Publishing, 2026
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- Title
- Helping Your Child Overcome OCD: A practical guide for parents who see their teen stuck in fear, rituals, and constant doubt-and want a clearer way to help at home.
- Author
- Lynden, Mara E. (Author)
- Publisher
- Felix Karma Publishing
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1806477378
- ISBN 13
- 9781806477371
- Item weight
- 0.15 kilograms
When your teen is trapped in fear, rituals, and constant doubt, it can feel like OCD is taking over your whole family.
If your child is stuck in repetitive behaviors, asking for reassurance over and over, melting down when routines change, or hiding disturbing intrusive thoughts they do not understand, this book was written for you. Helping Your Child Overcome OCD is not a vague overview of anxiety or a generic parenting guide. It is a focused, practical resource for parents who need to understand what obsessive-compulsive disorder really looks like in teens-and how to respond in ways that help instead of accidentally making the cycle stronger.
Inside this book, you will learn:
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- How to recognize the difference between normal habits and true OCD symptoms.
- Why intrusive thoughts, checking, contamination fears, mental rituals, and reassurance-seeking can become so powerful.
- How OCD affects school, sleep, friendships, family routines, and emotional well-being.
- What parents can do at home to stop feeding the OCD cycle through accommodation and repeated reassurance.
- Why CBT and ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) are central to effective OCD treatment.
- How to support a teen without shaming, panicking, overprotecting, or turning every day into a battle.
- How teens can begin to understand their own thinking errors, tolerate uncertainty, and build healthier coping skills.
- How family support, consistency, and practical self-help strategies can make recovery feel possible again.
This book walks you through the most important pressure points parents actually face: a child who takes forever to leave the house, schoolwork ruined by perfectionism and checking, angry outbursts when rituals are interrupted, and the exhausting reassurance trap that keeps everyone stuck. It also explains common OCD themes, co-occurring issues, the impact on siblings and family life, and the emotional burden parents carry when they are trying to help but do not know what to do next.
You will not find false promises here. What you will find is clarity, compassion, and a more grounded path forward.
Written in a warm, straightforward style, Helping Your Child Overcome OCD gives both parents and teens a clearer understanding of OCD, realistic hope, and practical tools to start pushing back against fear-together.
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Revaluation Books
Exeter, United Kingdom
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