When Your Teenager's Mind Gets Loud: Understanding Intrusive Thoughts and OCD in Adolescents, and How You Can Help

Author(s) : Marcus Lewton

When Your Teenager's Mind Gets Loud: Understanding Intrusive Thoughts and OCD in Adolescents, and How You Can Help

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 238
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Child and Adolescent Studies
  • Catalogue No : 98710
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041399452
  • ISBN 10 : 1041399456

Table of Contents

1. No manual for the mind, let alone an anxious teenage mind

2. Hearing the thought that terrifies us

3. Beyond behaviour: Seeing the symbolic mind

4. Four ways OCD takes hold

5. When OCD becomes the Enforcer

6. When OCD Pulls the Shutters Down

7. When OCD becomes a Sealed World

8. The Repairing Mind: From reassurance to relationship

9. The medication question

10. Neurodiversity and OCD

11. The work of containment

12. Translating therapy home

13. On caring and being cared for

14. When OCD holds up a mirror


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