Transcript
A (0:00)
Foreign. And welcome once again to another episode of the get to Know OCD podcast. I'm Dr. Patrick McGrath, the Chief Clinical Officer for NOCD. If you're looking for help for OCD or related conditions, check us out@nocd.com that's n o c d dot com. Today I have such a pleasure. A friend of mine joins Dr. Marnie Jacob. Marnie, how are you today?
B (0:27)
I'm doing wonderfully. Thanks for having me. How are you?
A (0:31)
I am doing very well and excited to talk to you today because you've got a new book out that is all about OCD and kids. And thank you for reaching out to me. I was so excited to be able to write a blurb for it. So that was really, really cool and happy to be a small part of that publication. But before we get into the book, why don't you tell everybody a little bit about yourself and what you've been doing in the OCD world.
B (1:00)
Sure. So I am Dr. Marni Jacob. I'm a clinical psychologist and owner of the Jacobs center for Evidence Based Treatment in Boca Raton, Florida. I specialize in treatment of OCD anxiety related disorders in children, adolescents, adults, and I predominantly provide treatment. So most of my time is spent doing cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention. I work with families, parents as well. I have two wonderful kids of my own. I do a lot of work with the International OCD foundation, which I know you do as well. So that's kind of my, my connection.
A (1:45)
Awesome. Well, how did you get into this field in the first place? You know, what brought you into psychology? What brought you into OCD and anxiety in particular?
B (2:00)
Yeah, so I, I was always interested in like medicine or pediatrics and psychology and I was majoring in psychology at the University of Florida. Go Gators. And, and I was involved in just some different research areas but didn't really find something that had really clicked until I had a guest speaker in one of my classes who happened to speak on OCD and kids. And so I just approached him after class very randomly and asked to work in his lab and started doing research on OCD and just really became interested in it. I did a lot of the pre post assessments for the treatment outcome studies and saw that people were getting significantly better and it just interested me. So I started to specialize in OCD and anxiety with all ages, but definitely always a focus with kids.
A (2:54)
I think I might know who that professor was actually. Have a feeling. Oh, that's cool. So you get into this, this is your career now and you didn't have to write a book, but. But you decided that it was time to write a book. So tell me about the impetus for writing and the title and everything. I want to hear about it.
