Help for Parents with Children Suffering from OCD

Feelings of anger, frustration, and confusion about what has happened to their child are not uncommon for parents to feel when their child has developed OCD. It can also be incredibly difficult to see how much OCD has taken over your child’s life, friendships, school success, joy, and energy and to feel helpless to stop this cycle or to intervene in a meaningful way. This can understandably lead to parents feeling powerless and alone.

Finding your child or adolescent effective OCD treatment can transform his or her life from one of anxiety, fear, and compulsive behavior, to one of freedom and enjoying the things they once loved, and can also allow for the transformation of your family.

OCD is a lifelong genetic condition. The sooner a child learns new tools and strategies to overcome their obsessions and compulsions, the sooner they and their family system can return to a state of normalcy. The tools and strategies that are learned during OCD treatment at The Gateway Institute can be utilized for life. This means that your child will learn the skills necessary to regain his or her immediate joy and freedom, and will also support them for life in staying out of the OCD cycle.

Psychoeducation for Parents of Children & Adolescents Suffering from OCD

By gaining a greater understanding of what OCD is, learning new skills to empower your child suffering from OCD, and learning to become a resource and support when your child’s therapist is not present, parents can become great allies in the fight to overcome OCD. Obtaining OCD treatment for a child suffering from OCD empowers both the child and parents with new tools and strategies to overcome OCD, and will help your family return to a level or stability and freedom that was present before OCD entered your life.

With All Treatment Options at Gateway, We Encourage Parents to Take Full Advantage of Gaining Psychoeducation

This education includes:

• Fully understanding OCD
• Understanding how OCD operates in the brain
• Relieving the inner pressure parents feel to solve their child’s OCD
• How to let go of trying to be a therapist and return to being a parent
• How to know when their child is performing compulsive behaviors and how to respond effectively when this is happening
• Identifying ways in which they could be enabling their child’s OCD
• How to respond to their child in an empowering way when they are in the OCD cycle