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Transdiagnostic Treatments for Youth: Conquering Negative Thinking and Behavior (Part 2)
Featuring Dr. Kenneth Towbin, M.D. and Dr. Mary Karapetian Alvord, PhD
ADAA Telemental Health Providers
College Students: OCD 101
You’re not alone if you have OCD. This disorder affects millions of people, and they come from every age group, race, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background. College can be stressful, and it’s not unusual to first experience OCD symptoms there.
What’s Normal and What’s Not?
Everybody worries at times. It’s normal to worry about things like school, how you look, what you said or did in a certain situation, how your parents will react to something you did, or what the future will bring. But OCD takes worries and doubts to the extreme.
Social Support Strategies
Students who have OCD may benefit from social support strategies at school.
Teachers, principals, school nurses, social workers, psychologists, counselors, and paraprofessionals can play a pivotal role in helping a student.
OCD at School
OCD is like an unwelcome guest with bad manners. It moves into a mind — and it doesn’t want to leave.
Clinical Practice Review for OCD
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
For diagnostic criteria and codes, visit the Anxiety Disorders page of the
Michael Van Ameringen, MD, FRCPC
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience
Women & Girls
Children and Teens - Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are treatable, but 80 percent of kids with a diagnosable anxiety disorder and 60 percent of kids with diagnosable depression are not getting treatment, according to the 2015 Child Mind Institute Children’s Mental Health Re
Redefining My Life
My struggles with emotional and mental problems began at age 12, when I experienced my first nervous breakdown. At age 20 I was diagnosed with major depression. By the time I was 30 that diagnosis had changed to chronic major depression with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
