The Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive CompulsiveDisorder - Inference-Based Therapy

This book is the first to bring together new research to offer a hands-on clinical guide to treating people with all types of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) using an inference-based therapy (IBT).

• Provides clinical examples from the full range of OCD subtypes
• Coverage integrates theory and application
• Decribes case management in detail - from initial assessment to terminating therapy and follow-up
• Shows how IBT can also be generalized and applied to other serious psychiatric disorders

Author: Kieron O'Connor, Frederick Aardema
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 12/12/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780470684108
ISBN10: 0470684100
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Compulsive Behavior
- Psychology | Clinical Psychology

About the Author

Dr Kieron O'Connor is currently the Director of the Centre for Research on Tic and Obsessional Disorders at the Fernand Seguin Research Center, Louis H. Lafontaine hospital affiliated with University of Montreal. He is also affiliated with the University of Quebec in Outaouais. His research focuses on improving understanding and treatment of people suffering from obsessive-compulsive spectrum and related disorders. The current IBT program is a product of this research. Dr O'Connor's publications include Behavioural Management of Tic Disorders (Wiley, 2005), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Reasoning Process in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (with F. Aardema & M. C. Pélissier; Wiley, 2005).

Dr Frederick Aardema is a Clinical Researcher at the Fernand Seguin Research Center, Louis H. Lafontaine hospital affiliated with the University of Montreal. He played a vital role in the development of the inference based approach to the treatment of OCD and his work on reasoning led to the development of an innovative theoretical approach to pure obsessional ruminations. Dr Aardema has published widely on obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. His books include Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Reasoning Process in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (with K. P. O'Connor & M. C. Pélissier, Wiley, 2005).