How to use Exposure and Response Prevention as a treatment method to help children and teens with OCD.
ADAA Member Aureen Pinto Wagner, PhD describes to measure your emotions and anxiety with "The Feeling Thermometer."
Specialist in cognitive-behavioral/exposure therapy for anxiety/OCD in children, teens and adults for 25+ years; developed the child-friendly Worry Hill® CBT approach. International speaker, training clinicians in CBT; livestreamed and in-person workshops on CBT for anxiety and OCD for professionals and for parents. Author of over ten books, professional kits, and streamable resources for clinicians, children and parents. Awarded the Self-Help Book Recommendation by the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) for the highest level of evidence-based best practices for Worried No More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children, Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and What to do when your Child has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions. Resources for professionals include Treatment of OCD in Children and Adolescents: Professional's Kit, and Worried No More: Teaching Tools and Forms.
How to use Exposure and Response Prevention as a treatment method to help children and teens with OCD.
ADAA Member Aureen Pinto Wagner, PhD describes to measure your emotions and anxiety with "The Feeling Thermometer."
Specialist in cognitive-behavioral/exposure therapy for anxiety/OCD in children, teens and adults for 25+ years; developed the child-friendly Worry Hill® CBT approach. International speaker, training clinicians in CBT; livestreamed and in-person workshops on CBT for anxiety and OCD for professionals and for parents. Author of over ten books, professional kits, and streamable resources for clinicians, children and parents. Awarded the Self-Help Book Recommendation by the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) for the highest level of evidence-based best practices for Worried No More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children, Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and What to do when your Child has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions. Resources for professionals include Treatment of OCD in Children and Adolescents: Professional's Kit, and Worried No More: Teaching Tools and Forms.
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Founded in 1979, ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through aligning research, practice and education.