Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents
By Tamar E. Chansky, PhD
ISBN: 0812931173
In her landmark book, Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Dr. Tamar E. Chansky creates a clear road map to understanding and overcoming OCD based on her successful practice treating hundreds of children and teenagers with this disorder. Filled with Dr. Chansky's compassionate advice and inspiring words from the many children with OCD whom she has helped, this book will be your lifeline. Battling back from OCD is hard work, but with the comprehensive, proven guidance in this book, you can help your child reclaim a life free from its grip.

Kissing Doorknobs
by Terry Spencer Hesser
ISBN: 0440413141
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Tara Sullivan has always been a worrier. For the past 11 years, she has managed to behave like a normal girl, until the day she hears the phrase that changes her life: "Step on a crack, break your mother's back." Now, everywhere she goes, Tara counts the cracks in the sidewalk. If she is interrupted and loses her place, she needs to go home and start again. As she gets older, Tara's "habits" change and multiply. Soon she is reciting prayers, chatting with her troll dolls, and carefully arranging her meals - over and over. Terry Hesser has written a compelling and humorous novel about a topic that merits discussion and compassion. She not only addresses the agony and confusion experienced, by a child afflicted with OCD, but also portrays a family's reaction to the confusion and guilt brought on, by the child's suffering. Any reader with a family member or friend suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder will relate to and learn from Tara's story.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Help for Children and Adolescents
by Mitzi Waltz
ISBN: 1565927583
Publisher: O'Reilly & Assoc, Sebastapol, CA
Summary: Having experienced OCD as both a patient and a parent, Mitzi Waltz provides parents and professionals with information on how to secure an accurate and complete diagnosis and find available resources as well as understand medical and therapy options, among other things.

The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.
ISBN: 0525247084
Publisher: Dutton/Plume
"Deeply moving and impressive," - NY Times, Best Seller. "This book with its new information and lively writing is very informing . . . Obvious compassion for her patients. Makes an important contribution in understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, an intriguing and irrational illness." - Oliver Sacks, M.D

Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Its Treatment
By Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D.
ISBN: 0-9677347-0-3
Publisher: Lighthouse Press, Inc.
Up and Down the Worry Hill helps parents and professionals explain OCD to children clearly and simply through the eyes of a child. Children with OCD will identify with Casey's initial struggle with OCD, his sense of hope when he learns about treatment, his relief that neither he nor his parents are to blame, and eventually, his victory over OCD.

What to Do when Your Child Has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies and Solutions
By Aureen Pinto Wagner, Ph.D.
ISBN: 0-9677347-1-1
Publisher: Lighthouse Press, Inc.
"A truly remarkable guide for parents, clinicians and school personnel. Expertly written and organized, it does an excellent job of demystifying childhood OCD and provides clear and compassionate guidelines to parents for managing the impact of OCD." - John Piacentini, Ph.D., Director, UCLA Child OCD, Anxiety and Tic Disorders Program.