Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the gold standard of treatment for OCD, and offers youngsters and their families the path to mastery over OCD. In this uniquely creative and heart-warming book, Dr. Wagner, an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of childhood OCD, uses the powerful real-life metaphor of the Worry Hill to describe OCD and its treatment clearly and simply through the eyes of a child. Children and adults will identify with Casey's 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.

Parents and Professionals can use this book alone or together with the companion book, What to do when your Child has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. This is the only children's OCD book that has a companion book for parents.

Over one million children and adolescents in the US suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a baffling illness that can be debilitating for the child in school, with friends and family. Help is now available!

"The best book available for children with OCD."
- Charles Mansueto, Ph.D., Scientific Advisory Board, Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation

"It's a masterpiece! It captures and conveys the essence of effective behavior therapy for OCD...the metaphors are perfect...Parents, teachers, clinicians and, most importantly, children will benefit enormously from reading it."
- John Greist, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin

"Excellent...I would recommend it for all our child patients with Tourette Syndrome and OCD symptoms."
- Roger Kurlan, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Chief of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Member, Medical Advisory Board, Tourette Syndrome Association

"Dr. Wagner has written a most helpful and entertaining book for young children who develop OCD symptoms. It is written from a child's perspective and is designed for parents and caregivers to read with the child. These symptoms can be exceedingly confusing and hard to explain to a child, but this book will make things much easier. The book leads naturally from clinical findings to useful questions to treatment approaches; probably a key element in the book is the careful motivating of the child for treatment."
- Michael A. Jenike, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Chair, Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation

"... a sizable contribution to the literature on childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Paul Jutton's illustrations and [ Dr.] Wagner's message provide parents and therapists with an engaging way to teach young children about OCD. More importantly, Up and Down the Worry Hill offers hope and affirmation to kids who suffer from this potentially disabling but treatable disorder."
- C. Alec Pollard, Ph.D. Professor of Community and Family Medicine Director, Anxiety Disorders Center, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

"The book offers a message of hope and makes it clear that although treatment may be hard work it can make OCD manageable...In summary I think that the book is one to add to the bookshelves of professionals treating children with OCD and worth recommending to parents."
- James M. Claiborn, Ph.D., ABPP Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy

"Clear, straightforward and jargon-free...the vital message that you are not alone, you are not crazy, and that there is hope through in a warm and easygoing manner. I would be happy to recommend it to my patients."
- Fred Penzel, Ph.D., Executive Director, Western Suffolk Psychological Services. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board