Kevin Ashworth: Helping parents help children (and teens) with OCD (#390)

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Bdd, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Hocd, Cocd, Rocd, Bodydysmorphicdisorder, Ocd, Anxiety, Obsessivecompulsivedisorder, Mental Health, Help, Mentalhealth, Depression, Advice

4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In episode 390 I chat with Kevin Ashworth. Kevin is the clinical director & senior clinician at the Northwest Anxiety Institute.

We discuss his therapy story, helping parents help kids and teens with OCD, helping with parental shame and guilt, psychoeducating parents on OCD, reducing accommodations, the therapeutic program SPACE which stands for supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions, having Mum, Dad or care giver in the therapy room, dealing with conflict between child and parent, how much should parents remind kids of therapy homework, the importance of humour, learning to be miserable on purpose, and much more. Hope it helps.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,
0:15.2	psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.
0:21.3	And welcome to episode 390 and in this one I chat with Kevin Ashworth. Kevin is the clinical director and
0:29.0	senior clinician at the Northwest Anxiety Institute.
0:33.0	In this episode we discuss his therapy story, helping parents help kids and teens with
0:37.9	OCD, helping with parental shame and guilt, psychoeducating parents on ICD, reducing accommodations,
0:46.0	the therapeutic program space, which stands for supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions,
0:52.0	having mom, dad or caregiver in the therapy room,
0:56.6	dealing with conflict between child and parent, how much should parents remind kids of
1:01.9	therapy homework, the importance of humour,
1:05.0	learning to be miserable on purpose, and much more.
1:08.0	And thank you to our podcast partners, NOCD.
1:12.0	And NOCD is celebrating three years of partnering with this
1:15.0	podcast and in honor of this anniversary no CD have offered people in the UK a
1:20.9	special deal because I am a UK citizen. So to honor the free
1:25.5	year partnership they are offering new members in the UK a reduced rate of
1:29.2	$32 US dollars are roughly about 25 pounds sterling, per 60 minute session if you start
1:36.5	therapy before the 31st of July.
1:38.8	You'll be able to continue treatment at this discounted rate for two months.
1:42.3	To access this reduced rate, schedule a free call with their team
1:46.0	and mention the code OCD stories. That's code OCD stories to get this discount.
1:51.6	And you can find out more by going to go dot treat my
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