Compulsive Checking – Two Games to Help a Child Think Differently
Children who repeatedly check are often watchful of what’s happening around them. They take care to make sure things are okay, which in itself is fine; but when carefulness develops into something more...
View Article6 Tips to Help with Gagging and Sound Irritation
Does your child cover their ears and yell when they hear someone chewing food? Do they react to the sound of coughing and sneezing? Does your child gag when they watch people eat? Are they able to...
View ArticleTeachers: 5 Signs to Spot a Child’s Contamination Fears
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterised by intrusive thoughts, impulses and images that regularly play on the child’s...
View Article3 Steps to Help a Child Overcome Irrational Fears
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Does your child worry about space, earthquakes, dying and the afterlife? Do they fear the unknown when faced with being alone in...
View Article3 Strategies to Help a Child Cope with Death and Tragedy Obsessions
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Most children who worry about death and tragedy can usually be appropriately reassured. However, when children repeatedly fret...
View ArticleBack to School: ABCs to Reframe a Past Negative Experience
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Intrusive and repetitive thoughts such as: “my classmates are mean”, “they tease me” or “they don’t like me” can play havoc on The...
View Article5 Tips to Help an Anxious Child Play their Favorite Sport
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Nine-year-old Billy stood watching his town’s hockey team from the side-lines. Excitedly, he cheered on his friend Callum who was...
View ArticleAddress Trauma in Children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Nine year old James had been in a car accident with his father. Shortly after the accident, James started experiencing negative...
View ArticleOCD: Children and Magical Thinking
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights A concerned mother shares, “My 12 year old son thinks something bad will happen to me if he doesn’t do what OCD (Obsessive The post...
View ArticleHow to Help a Child Overcome Defecation Phobia
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Children with defecation phobia form a vicious circle that often involves withholding a bowel movement for days followed by a bowel...
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