Westwood Institute for Anxiety Disorders

Resources

Educational Resources

Explore educational materials about OCD, anxiety-related disorders, symptom patterns, treatment methods, and recovery tools.

Core OCD Education

Resources explain OCD symptoms, the OCD cycle, common obsessions and compulsions, and evidence-based treatment concepts.

Dr. Schwartz's Four Steps for OCD

The Four Steps introduce relabeling, reattribution, refocusing, and revaluing as educational tools that can help patients understand OCD thoughts and compulsive urges more clearly.

Read the Four Steps resource

Use of Resources

Educational materials can support understanding but do not replace diagnosis or treatment by a qualified mental health professional.