Clinician's Handbook for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Inference-Based Therapy

by Kieron O'Connor, Frederick Aardema

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 subtypesCoverage integrates theory and applicationDecribes case management in detail - from initial assessment to terminating therapy and follow-upShows how IBT can also be generalized and applied to other serious psychiatric disorders

Genres: Psychology

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 17, 2011

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Key source to begin inference-based approaches, but should be supplemented with plenty of other material.

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good content, and I am grateful for the accessibility of the text. However, this book is very poorly edited. It's difficult to get through with so many grammatical and spelling errors. It is especially disconcerting given that it was published by Wiley Blackwell with so many errors.

[Chloé · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an excellent overview of the I-CBT approach to OCD. As a counselor who works with OCD, I think I-CBT is a very promising method of treatment. This handbook summarizes how to utilize it in practice, and it includes the worksheets and training cards and quizzes that you can use with clients (which are also shared on I-CBT's website for free). This book provided in-depth explanations for each module of the treatment, and it also included helpful troubleshooting tips and a description of possible misunderstandings or misapplications (both on the part of the therapist and client) to watch out for. I think this book is a must for any mental health practitioner using this approach, but it would help to have additional trainings and other resources too. I just got Aardema's Resolving OCD books that clients can use, and I haven't read them yet to comment on them, but they might be an easier read to supplement this.

One big complaint for this book is that there are so many typos! At least a few per chapter. They never significantly change the meaning of a sentence, but they're just enough to interrupt the flow of the reading. They're things like an extra letter on a word, the wrong subject/verb agreement, the wrong preposition, or two words serving the same function printed next to each other, as if the authors or editor were considering them both and left them both rather than picking one. I wish they'd publish a new edition with those errors cleaned up. I-CBT is gaining ground as a respected treatment option, and although these errors don't have any true bearing on the effectiveness of it, it probably doesn't help its case when the main handbook for it has sloppy editorial mistakes.

[•*•Alex Mac•*• · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a complimentary resource for someone that’s taken an I-CBT training, this book is fine. On its own, I don’t think I would know how to implement I-CBT with efficacy. Perhaps it’s because this book is translated to English, there are confusing and convoluted ways of defining concepts, and there are a number of grammatical and spelling errors.

That said, I’m grateful for I-CBT; both as someone with lived experience of OCD, and a clinician.

[Chet Taranowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a brilliant book, both for its insight into the life experience of OCD and for its clear step-by-step guide to intervention.