Touch and Go Joe

An Adolescent's Experience of OCD

Joe Wells
Foreword by Isobel Heyman

Paperback: £9.99 / $15.95

2006, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 128pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-391-2, BIC 2: JM MBPK

add to cart

• description |
• reviews |
• contents |

Runner up in the Nasen and TES Special Education Needs Book Awards 2006

As many as 2 in every 100 people suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and 16-year-old Joe Wells is one of them. In Touch and Go Joe, he tells the story of his battle with OCD from its insidious beginnings at age 9 and increasingly intrusive symptoms, to diagnosis at age 12. Having struggled to keep the condition a secret for years, he is now able to talk and write openly about OCD and how he battled to overcome it.

This book is packed with advice and coping strategies, as well as first-hand accounts of available treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy and medication. Written in an informal and accessible style, and including his own humorous illustrations, Touch and Go Joe gives an upbeat yet realistic look at the effect of OCD on adolescent life.

This honest and amusing account will raise awareness of this all-too-common, yet frequently misdiagnosed disorder and will be of interest to anyone who has suffered from or knows someone who has suffered from OCD, including children and adolescents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, parents and carers.

Author information

• Joe Wells

Subject areas

• Fiction & Memoirs
• Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes
• Health, Social Work and Social Care
• Psychiatry and Psychology

Keywords

• adolescence,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• inclusive classroom,
• mainstream education,
• memoirs,
• mental health,
• obsessive compulsive disorder,
• occupational therapy,
• parenting,
• pastoral care,
• psychiatry,
• psychology,
• social work,
• special education

People who bought this, also bought