Description
This user-friendly workbook provides adults with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), the tools they need to move beyond their disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and it also serves as compact text for clinicians/practitioners to use with clients suffering from OCD at any point in treatment.
The workbook offers readers hands-on ACT and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) skills for taming disturbing obsessions and filling the gap of where one stands and where one wants to go. Dr. Zurita provides evidence-based exercises to guide adults through the process of ACT. This includes learning to step back from one’s thoughts and memories, opening up to all types of unwanted thoughts and feelings, paying attention to the physical world, observing one’s thoughts and feelings, getting rid of barriers to values-based living, and developing consistent patterns of values-based behavior.
Written from the office of a full-time therapist in a simple, uncomplicated, and unpretentious manner, this workbook will be useful for all clients suffering from OCD and for the therapists who work with them.
I wanted to use this with clients, and there is content worth sharing with them. Unfortunately, there are also figures that make no sense (14.1) and I can’t recommend something to my clients that I can’t figure out myself. There may be some good tools and info but the workbook needs copyediting.
I bet you can’t say that about many (if any) constructive workbooks, can you? I have had the pleasure of following along in this book along with sessions with Dr. Z herself! The book is easy to read, comprehend, and has many wonderful exercises that really make you stop and think, and at the same time helps one to learn to accept and move through one’s issues. This is a breath of fresh of air.
This is a key resource for anyone struggling with obsessions and compulsions. Dr Z gives a clear and compassionate approach to dealing with uncertainty. She helps the reader to learn to handle difficult thoughts and overwhelming emotions, how to keep moving towards a more fulfilling life and engaging in exposure and response prevention in a way that can be accessed by anyone. Highly recommended!!
Dr. Z’s book is huge, which at first can seem daunting–however, reading it you see that she has compiled perhaps the most comprehensive guide to OCD treatment. She seamlessly weaves strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and Compassion-Focused Therapy into a must-have guide for people suffering from OCD.
If you have OCD or treat people with OCD this book is both an excellent reference guide and a hands-on structured workbook!
I highly recommend purchasing this workbook, whether you are a clinician working with patients with OCD or an individual with OCD. My patients thus far have benefitted from this comprehensive workbook, which is written in a strait forward and easy to learn manner. I especially appreciate that there are chapters on self compassion. This is often overlooked when working with individuals with OCD, who often engage in frequent self loathing.