Loved this book with many helpful tools to help kids and adults mange ocd symptoms and behaviors! Broken down in manageable chunks for kids and parents to digest with it without a therapist.

An informative and helpful workbook that is specifically geared towards helping children suffering with OCD. The activities to tackle OCD are easily explained in a fun and empowering manner that helps them build different skills. I thank Netgalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for the opportunity to read and review this helpful workbook.

This is a really useful handbook for children, parents, or anyone who has or knows anyone with OCD.

Rather than a scary textbook, the way this book is set out is very accessible. I would recommend this book.

Many thanks to Natasha Daniels, NetGalley, and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for this copy.

🧠 Crushing OCD Workbook for Kids ARC Review 🧠

This is a new book containing activities (designed by a therapist!!) to help children better understand and handle their OCD. This book is by Natasha Daniels and was released yesterday! 🎉

Although this book is technically written for children, I (someone both with OCD and a psychology/counseling degree) see the benefits for those of any age. I will personally be recommending this book to some dear friends. 🫶🏻

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Content: 🍓🍓🍓🍓

Touchy Topics: mental health, OCD, obsessions, compulsions, family involvement, specific obsessions and compulsions, specific types of OCD

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Rating Scale:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: PERFECT. Probably cried
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Wonderful, just not top 10
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Good! Most books fit here
⭐️⭐️: Not really my cup of tea
⭐️: Basically DNF

Content Scale:

🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓: Squeaky clean!
🍓🍓🍓🍓: Appropriate for most readers
🍓🍓🍓: Heavy topics, likely 18+
🍓🍓: Intense scenes about heavy topics
🍓: Tread lightly

This is a great resource for kids with OCD. I think this is a good book for families to work through together and a great resource for counselors. I learned a lot through this book and I found it age appropriate. Thank you for giving me an advanced copy.

I thought the author did a great job of breaking down OCD in a way younger readers could understand. It is such a misunderstood disorder (especially with the way the term is thrown around for anyone who prefers order over chaos) and is often not really taken seriously as something that can significantly interfere with everyday functioning. The activities included here are appropriate for the demographic being targeted. I liked that the purpose of this book is not just to offer suggestions on how to manage OCD, but also to teach kids about what OCD is - it hopefully will also offer parents more insight into what the disorder is and how they can support their child. The activities are not overly complicated and will not be overwhelming to this age group.

Thank you to the publishers & NetGalley for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

As a therapy tool, this is one of the most child-friendly I've seen in a while. It uses accessible language, and fitting illustrations throughout. The worksheets are also designed to give enough space to be of real, practical use (as a Therapist, this is like hitting gold!)

As someone who struggled with OCD as a child, I was really curious to see if this book would do such a complicated mental illness justice. I think it definitely did! If you know a young child dealing with OCD, this workbook could potentially really help them to understand their disorder and figure out ways to cope with it.

This one could be useful for adults, even though we're not the primary audience! I appreciated the positive tone, journaling exercises, and discussion around core fears. A practical and empowering workbook for anyone who struggles with OCD or symptoms of OCD. Thanks for the ARC!

Many thanks to NetGalley for letting me read an eARC of this :)
I was curious when I saw this book; I'm an adult with OCD, and have been battling it for a large portion of my life - and if I had this book when I was a child, it would have made things a lot easier.

I enjoyed the tidbits of science along with the metaphors used to make things digestable for children. I even found myself learning things I didn't know - I now know more about neural pathways than I ever thought I would!
It's written in a style that is very kid-friendly, but also doesn't treat their child audience like idiots. It explains things thoughtfully and uses examples that they would understand.

Some tasks were quite repetitive - but I'm not a psychologist so I don't know if it was a deliberate choice that could help in battling OCD.

Overall, I legitimately may buy this book when it releases; it has a lot of useful exersises and techniques that I myself will be employing in my daily life.
Very good, tailored perfectly to their target audience, and I imagine will be very helpful to young OCD sufferers.

OCD in children and teens is oftentimes overlooked with kids being described as difficult or just anxious. Being a mental health professional, I am appreciative of the growth of identifying alternate diagnosis as well as reading material and activities that are presented in a fun, easy way which this workbook does.

I do wish it had more of a manualized feel. What I mean by this is that while it numbers the different activities, I wish it had more of a guided approach so kids can continue to use this workbook on a structured schedule. This can also be up to the caregivers/clinicians that are utilizing this workbook with kids.

Overall, this presents psychoeducation about OCD in a kid-appropriate manner and transitions to skill building which builds upon itself as the workbook goes on. I believe this would be a healthy and informative tool for any kid and subsequent caregiver/clinician to utilize to help their child take charge of their diagnosis.

The "Crushing OCD Workbook for Kids" is a fantastic resource for children. I wish this book had been available during my childhood, having experienced symptoms of OCD from a young age. It serves as a much-needed tool for children grappling with OCD, offering a thoughtful and accessible guide to understanding and managing the condition. The book's presence is particularly reassuring given the taboo surrounding OCD, which can be even more challenging for children to comprehend. I am grateful for the existence of such books, shedding light on a crucial but often misunderstood subject and providing invaluable support for young individuals navigating the complexities of OCD.

As an adult with OCD o was intrigued to see how this book was set out, especially aimed towards children.

Some of the compassions are a little odd like comparing OCD to ice cream, but if it helps children to understand it, then it helps.

There's lots of ideas and activities for careers and children to do, more than I expected.

I think this book will be helpful for many people

This workbook for children explains what OCD is, how it operates, and how kids can fight back against it. The author explains some of the sub-types of this disorder, and the workbook activities build on each other in a clear, sequential manner. This can be a helpful tool for kids who are already in therapy, and it's simple enough for families to use this without professional help.

Even though the book as a whole is straightforward, some of the metaphors that the author uses early on aren't very intuitive. Because they're a bit of a stretch, they're much less memorable, and they may create unnecessary obstacles for kids with OCD, who are likely to be very literal thinkers. The older title "What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD" by Dawn Huebner is less thorough than this book, but has far more natural metaphors and examples.

Overall, I would recommend this workbook to families dealing with OCD. It's kid-friendly without feeling too juvenile, and the book lays out the process of fighting OCD in a way that is easy to understand and build on.

SUnch a valuable help for kids and full of rich suggestions that can be adopted by adults as well. The author explains very clearly and gives you hope, it reallu makes you believe that you can improve your condition.

The good: I really enjoyed this book's attempt to portray OCD as an issue that affects people from a wide variety of backgrounds and how it manifests differently to different people. It is quite effective to name OCD so that when moments come up you can quickly identify it, and this book does that early on.

The editing note: In the kindle version some of the lists seem to be missing. For example it will list "1", then "4", then "5". I feel like in some areas pieces of text were missing.

What to improve: Some of the metaphors used (ie OCD is like ice cream) and some of the images (the filters in particular) were not intuitive. As someone who has worked with several people with severely debilitating OCD, I do not think that these would make sense to most of their highly pattern driven logic patterns. What is going into the machine? Why are there words on the front? What does being cold have to do with cheating? Why does it jump from people to monsters to rocket ships? I also did not like the "filter" metaphor and it was used extensively throughout. I didn't find that it was a good fit and it didn't cleanly represent the ideas in a way that made the text believable. We might know it from a clinician's perspective, but books like this have to convince the reader that they understood and this didn't convince me of that.

I did not realise when I requested it that this OCD book is meant for kids, but I read it anyway and even though I am an adult I still found it useful. Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for giving me a copy of the book.