Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos

of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.

This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified

professional.

Here's your host, Child Therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there,

and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I want to talk to you

about something that is so important that this may be the most important episode that I ever do.

So I'm glad you're listening to it because so often OCD is

misunderstood not only by your friends and your family, but professionals get it wrong a lot of the

time. And hopefully as time progresses, this will change. But OCD is not well taught in graduate programs.

Therapists are not leaving graduate school educated in how to assess, treat, evaluate,

and do ERP for people with OCD.

Even though ERP exposure response prevention, a type of CBT, cognitive

behavioral therapy, is the first line therapy approach for OCD. And so you as the parent have to know

when professionals are getting it wrong. And that puts us in the driver's seat and adds a little

pressure. But hopefully by the end of this episode, you'll be armed and dangerous because you'll

know enough to know when they don't. And that's my ultimate goal is for you to get into the right

hands to get the right treatment so that your child can get the right help

and have long-term success. They're not going to do that with the wrong therapist. In fact,

it can make it a whole lot worse. All right. Before we dive in, though, I do want to thank NoCD,

ironically, who's sponsoring this episode. They don't get to pick my topics. This just happens to be.

But they do offer affordable,

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