Diabetes on Your Own Terms or Helping Your Child with OCD

Diabetes on Your Own Terms

Author: Janis Roszler

Despite prevailing ideas about diabetes treatment, you can learn to control your diabetes, instead of feeling like it controls you. This is the first book to underscore that managing your condition doesn't have to be focused on deprivation. Leading diabetes educator/dietitian Janis Roszler breaks new ground in Diabetes on Your Own Terms with her insight into balancing real life with the distresses and strains of dealing with diabetes. Diabetes on Your Own Terms will provide you with treatment options and how to establish health goals that suit your lifestyle and personality; information about healthy practices — weight loss, diet, and exercise — and suggestions for incorporating new habits into your daily life; an explanation of common diabetic complications, and how to avoid and/or delay them; and ways to prevent diabetes from intruding on the time you spend with family, friends, co-workers, and dates. Roszler's message is powerful yet simple: Don't allow diabetes to prevent you from living the life you want, don't accept "no" for an answer, and don't let diabetes get you down. Diabetes can be frustrating, but you don't have to allow it to ruin your dreams. Set realistic goals — and soar!

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Helping Your Child with OCD

Author: Lee Fitzgibbons

Children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder may need to engage in ritualistic behavior such as counting, checking, washing, hoarding, as a part of their daily routine. Left untreated, this problem can lead to debilitating stress and embarrassment during their school years and a lifetime of struggle with anxiety. This book is a personalized guide for parents of a child with OCD. Understand the causes of the disorder and explore available treatments. Find out which techniques are most effective at controlling symptoms. This engaging workbook is full of assessments, fill-ins, and progress charts that encourage you to get involved and stay committed to your child's recovery.

About the authors:
Lee Fitzgibbons, Ph.D., is the former director of the Children's Program at the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. She specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with OCD. A professional member of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation, and the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, she regularly presents workshops for both lay and professional audiences.

Cherry Pedrick, RN, is a registered nurse and freelance writer. In 1994 she was diagnosed with OCD, upon which she began an intensive search for knowledge, effective treatment, and management of obsessive-compulsive disorder. She has coauthored many books for people with obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, including The OCD Workbook.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	v
	Introduction	1
Part I	Does My Child Have OCD?
Chapter 1	What Is OCD?	7
Chapter 2	Unmasking OCD	19
Chapter 3	The Impact of OCD	31
Part II	Selecting Treatment and Seeking Help
Chapter 4	Effective Treatments for OCD	41
Chapter 5	Getting Started	63
Part III	What the Parent Can Do
Chapter 6	Defining Roles and Responsibilities	73
Chapter 7	Preparing to Be an Assistant Coach	83
Chapter 8	Observing How OCD Affects Your Family	99
Chapter 9	Developing a Family Plan, or Tying It All Together	115
Chapter 10	Parenting through the Process	135
Chapter 11	Finding Where You Fit In	155
Chapter 12	Parenting and the School	163
Chapter 13	Special Issues, and into the Future	167
	Conclusion	177
	Resources	179
	References	183