 Hey today, I am going to be revising for you a book with quite a long title OCD tools to help you fight back a CBT workbook for young people quite a mouthful now This book is like accompanying workbook that goes with the clinical guide. I don't have the clinical guide But actually I think that this on its own it's already quite good If you're someone who's like relatively familiar with this stuff, but if not you might want to get both So what is this this is a book by the team at the Maudsley who support children and young people with OCDs That's obsessive compulsive disorder now the first thing I need to say is I've worked with these guys in the past They were incredibly kind and helpful and many years ago when I was doing my PhD They allowed me to come and shadow the work that they were doing at the Michael Rutter Center and they were doing great stuff and I didn't know much about OCD before I worked with them But what I learned from them was that this is a condition that can really like overtake young people's lives or anyone's lives And it feels completely out of control and it feels impossible to do anything about but it's super super treatable Now the guys at the Maudsley have spent a long time developing strategies that really really work So they've got really good evidence base for what they know works and they have a program that they work through With children and young people with OCD they know it works And so they've basically kind of manualised it and this is kind of the the manual the worksheets that go with this process Okay, so just share a little bit of information from the back about who the authors are so you can see so the So yeah Chloe Volts was the first one who talked to me about OCD and got me to learn a bit more about it Because I had done some work at her child's school around self-harmonizing disorders And she said I'd like you to work on OCD too So thank you to Chloe for first introducing me to the world OCD some time ago. So they're a great team You can see they've got loads of experience. Yeah, and yeah, just in case you don't know all acronyms So BDD Stands for body dysmorphic disorder. So that's people who perceive their body incorrectly and that's really distressing for them So they might for example like have a kind of obsessions around like being like having a really ugly nose or really horrible hands Or quite often we see it in eating disorders where people will see themselves as grotesquely fat even if they're really underweight For example, so that's what BDD stands for. Okay enough wittering pookie So let's have a look at the contents first so you can have a look and see kind of what happens here So I'll show the contents pages here So you can see that it goes through kind of session by session and at the beginning You're kind of developing the understanding and skills and then there are sessions in the future where you're like using ERP which is exposure and response prevention, which is like the key technique to actually overcome The obsessions and compulsion so it does become like repetitive But in a good way because you're kind of establishing and reinforcing those skills and tackling more behaviors Okay, so let's have a look at some of the pages to give you a feel for what it's like So I'm going to first go to page 33 and 34 Okay, so let's have a look now at pages 32 and 33 I'm going to look at them in the reverse order weirdly just in order to help explain So you can see on page 33 that we're thinking about how we break the OCD cycle This gives you a good idea about like the style of the book This is what the illustrations kind of look like and there's this this kind of uniform style throughout which is great So you can see here we're thinking about that cycle of OCD and the fact that we want to break that cycle by controlling the compulsions the behaviors and then There is on page 32 a blank one that you can use to work through an example of your own OCD So use that with the child in order to outline You know one of their behaviors and we would then think about what's the compulsion here that we're trying to get rid of So that gives you an example of the the kind of exercises that you'd be doing in the earlier sessions and what it kind of looks like Okay, and then we're going to look next at 40 page 47 Which is fighting back using ERP to beat OCD so ERP is exposure and response prevention And here we go through this kind of 10-step process that we do again and again and again throughout the course of this book in order to try and Beat those compulsions essentially so you can get an idea here about the kind of process that you're going through many many many times And this comes up again and again and again. This is kind of the the key component really of the the workbook Okay, and then I'm going to show you page 114 Which is I wanted to show you because there's kind of these tools for fighting OCD and this is one of them And here we're thinking about intrusive thoughts And then there are some exercises where we think about our intrusive thoughts and on the following pages We think as well as the positive intrusive thoughts We think about neutral ones and negative ones and it goes on to explain a bit more So just to kind of give you an idea about you know again some of the sort of background and the information Understanding that you would be building with a child if you were to use the workbook So yeah, so as I said, this is the workbook. It goes alongside the clinical Manual which I I don't have because I didn't realize it existed. So I didn't ask for copies Sorry, and if you'd particularly like me to review that then do leave a comment below and I will endeavor to do so in a future Video, but I don't have it right now And I thought the workbook is relatively self-explanatory and stands quite well alone as long as you've got a fairly decent understanding of OCD to Start with but I really liked it It was really practical gives you a really clear framework for supporting a child Through overcoming their OCD and I think it's nice because it's really skills building And so it will provide kids with the skills and the understanding they need in order to continue to Tackle their OCD As well. So yeah, I like it and I can imagine lots of you Would find that this would fit really neatly and easily into your practice Okay, the three things I most liked about this book one is there's a whole ton of space So you can write all over it a kid can make it completely their own the workbook It's great. I love books that you can write in I know not everyone does but I do and I like it a lot Okay, number two is that it is based on a lot of research clinical evidence and Stuff so it's there's science But it's really clear and simple to use so it's not overwhelming in any way So even though there's like loads and loads of stuff behind it What you're actually presented with is something that's really simple and super usable, which I think is great Um and number three is that I like the fact that you are encouraged to repeat tasks And you go back doing the same things again and again Which I think would provide like this sense of familiarity and make it easier to engage and make the sessions work Really well with a child or young person And I think it would also make it much more likely that they're able to continue To use those skills and engage with those ideas and ways of addressing their thinking After the session as well. So there's not like tons and tons of new ideas and information all the time There's lots of reinforcing Of the skills that have been learned and revisiting them and trying them again with new behaviors and so on and so forth So yes, would I recommend it? Yes, I would if you are supporting children young people with OCD Really really neat And clearly has had a huge amount of work behind it has been shown to work And the hard work has been done for you really. So, um, yeah great a great resource. I think to add to your toolbox I hope you found the video helpful. Do let me know if there are Books or other resources that you would like me to review in future videos Leave a comment with your suggestions and I hope to see you next time Do subscribe and you will be kept updated with my new videos that come out on a Tuesday and a Friday Okay, take care. Goodbye