OCD Awareness Week 8th - 14th October 2017

Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a serious anxiety-related condition where a person experiences frequent intrusive and unwelcome obsessional thoughts, often followed by repetitive compulsions, impulses or urges.

The illness affects as many as 12 in every 1000 people (1.2% of the population) from young children to adults, regardless of gender or social or cultural background. In fact, it can be so debilitating and disabling that the World Health Organisation (WHO) once ranked OCD in the top ten of the most disabling illnesses of any kind, in terms of lost earnings and diminished quality of life.

Therefore OCD Awareness Week is a global effort to raise awareness and understanding about OCD, with the goal of educating people and working towards removing misunderstanding and stigma that can be caused by misrepresentation of OCD. Launched in 2009 by the International OCD Foundation (a US based charity), OCD Awareness Week is now promoted by a number of organisations across the world, and OCD-UK are delighted to be taking the lead here in the UK.

For more information surrounding OCD, please visit the OCD UK website; http://www.ocduk.org/

RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES  

For anyone studying the importance of improving knowledge of and supporting those who have OCD, the Health Library offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of  items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS

·       What to do when your brain gets stuck: a kid's guide to overcoming OCD / by Dawn Huebner & Bonnie Matthews, 2007, Washington, D.C. : Magination Press.

·       Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Theory, Research and Treatment / by Ross G. Menzies & Padmal de Silva, 2003, New York : Wiley. [Ebook]

·       Obsessional thoughts and behaviour : help for obsessive-compulsive disorder / by Frederick M. Toates, 1990, London: Thorsons.

·       Stuff : compulsive hoarding and the meaning of things / by Randy O. Frost & Gail Steketee, 2011, Boston: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

·       The intelligent clinician's guide to the DSM-5 / by Joel Paris, 2013, New York : Oxford University Press

·       Obsessive-compulsive disorders : practical management / by Michael A Jenike; Lee Baer &William E Minichiello, 1998, 3^rd edition, St. Louis, MO : Mosby.

·       Obsessive-compulsive disorder : current science and clinical practice / by Joseph Zohar & World Psychiatric Association, 2012, Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell.

JOURNALS

·       Behavior therapy, Elsevier : Amsterdam. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards & NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].

·       Behaviour research and therapy, Pergamon : Oxford ; New York. [Available in print 1994 – 2001. Also available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards & NHS ejournal 1994 - 2001].

·       European child & adolescent psychiatry, Steinkopff : Darmstadt . [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards & NHS ejournal 1998 with a 1 year embargo].

·       Biology of mood & anxiety disorders, Biomed Central :London. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2011 onwards].

·       Journal of anxiety disorders, Pergamon : New York. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards & NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].

·       Journal of Abnormal Psychology, American Psychological Association  : Washington, D.C. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1905 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

·       Neeltje M Batelaan et a., “Risk of relapse after antidepressant discontinuation in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis of relapse prevention trials”, BMJ, 2017, 13th Sept, Vol.385(j3927) doi: 10.1136/bmj.j3927 [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

·       Upasana Baruah  et al., “A randomized controlled study of brief family-based intervention in obsessive compulsive disorder”, Journal of Affective Disorders, 2018, Vol.225(1), pp. 137-146. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

·       Tolin, David F and  Anna Villavicencio, “Inattention, but not OCD, predicts the core features of hoarding disorder”, Behaviour research and therapy, February 2011, Vol.49(2), pp.120-5. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

·       Weidle, Bernhard et al., “Quality of life in children with OCD before and after treatment”, European child & adolescent psychiatry, September 2015, Vol.24(9), pp.1061-74. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

·       Radomsky, Adam S et al., “When more is less: doubt, repetition, memory, metamemory, and compulsive checking in OCD” , Behaviour research and therapy, August 2014, Vol.59, pp.30-9. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

·       Dèttore, Davide and Kieron O’Connor, “OCD and Cognitive Illusions”, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2013, Vol.37(1), pp.109-121. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

·       Comer, Jonathan S. et al., “Internet-Delivered, Family-Based Treatment for Early-Onset OCD: A Pilot Randomized Trial”, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2017, Vol. 85(2), pp.178 –186. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

·       Pertusa, Alberto et al., “When hoarding is a symptom of OCD: a case series and implications for DSM-V”, Behaviour research and therapy, October 2010, Vol.48(10), pp.1012-20. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

PAITENT INFORMATION / PAITENT ADVICE

Obsessive compulsive disorder - NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=ocd+or+obsessive+compulsive+disorder&sp=on

Patients support tab in the Health Library Mental Health subject links page: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/subjectlinks/mentalhealth/#tabs-5

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