Focus Testimonials

“The FOCUS Program, developed by Dr Paula Barrett and colleagues, is an excellent resource for mental health professionals working in the area of child and adolescent OCD. Comprehensive in scope and derived from evidence-based clinical principles, the FOCUS Program provides structured guidelines for including other family members in treatment and is flexible enough for use in both individual and group settings. Controlled outcome research has demonstrated impressive short- and long-term efficacy for the program, and provides further evidence that this manual will be an important addition to any clinician’s library.

Dr Barrett has conducted truly pioneering work in the phenomenology, prevention, and treatment of childhood OCD and other anxiety disorders. Her research is both innovative and elegant, internationally-recognized, and has served to advance the clinical and research understanding of many of the most pressing problems in child mental health today.”
John Piacentini
Ph.D., ABBPP
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior