Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterised by a person's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and their related compulsions. It affects an estimated 1 percent of teenagers and has been detected in children as young as three years old.

Polly Waite is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading. Tim Williams is a Consultant Clinical psychologist and Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Reading.

1 Obsessive compulsive problems in childhood and adolescence, Polly Waite & Tim Williams2 The use of CBT with children and adolescents, Cathy Creswell & Polly Waite3 Assessment of obsessive compulsive disorder, Catherine Gallop4 Planning and carrying out treatment, Polly Waite, Linda Atkinson & Catherine Gallop5 CBT with younger children, Linda Atkinson6 CBT with adolescents, Polly Waite7 Working with families and complex problems, Catherine Gallop & Linda Atkinson8 Working with associated problems, Tim Williams9 Future issues, Polly Waite, Tim Williams & Paul SalkovskisAppendix