Providing a comprehensive overview of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), this book brings together timely contributions from leading researchers and practitioners. Three clearly organized sections cover psychopathology, assessment and treatment, and obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders. Featured are a wealth of new and recent data, numerous case examples, and helpful conceptual and clinical pointers. An appendix includes extensive resource listings for both clinicians and patients. -- from the publisher Table of Contents: I. Psychopathology and Theoretical Perspectives 1. Diagnostic Issues and Epidemiology in OCD, Antony, Downie, and Swinson 2. Psychological Approaches to the Understanding of Obsessional Problems, Salkovskis 3. Cognitive and Behavioral Features of OCD, Rachman and Shafran 4. Personality and OCD, Summerfeldt, Huta, and Swinson 5. Families of Individuals with OCD, Steketee and Pruyn 6. Biological Models of OCD: The Serotonin Hypothesis, Gross, Sasson, Chopra, and Zohar 7. Neuroimaging and Neuroanatomical Issues in OCD, Cottraux and Gérard 8. Genetics of OCD, Billett, Richter, and Kennedy 9. The Relationship between OCD and Other Anxiety-Based Disorders, Brown II. Assessment and Treatment 10. Assessment of OCD, Taylor 11. Psychosocial Treatments for OCD: Literature Review, Foa, Franklin, and Kozak 12. Psychosocial Treatments for OCD: Clinical Applications, Stanley and Averill 13. Biological Treatments for OCD: Literature Review, Pigott and Seay 14. Biological Treatments for OCD: Clinical Applications, M. T. Pato, C. N. Pato, and Gunn 15. Combination Treatments for OCD, van Balkom and van Dyck 16. OCD in Children and Adolescents, March and Leonard III. Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders 17. Conceptual Foundations of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Goldsmith, Shapira, Phillips, and McElroy 18. Recognition and Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Black Appendix: List of Resources for OCD and Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Rowa and Antony |