European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ann Landers dear Ann Landers you have provided a tremendous service Over the years by suggesting that troubled people get counselling. I was pleased to see a recent column devoted to obsessive compulsive disorder but regretted that you failed to mention the Success of psychological treatment in addition to drug therapy. In More than 15 years of research behavioural therapists have shown that about 75 percent of those with obsessive compulsive disorder Benefit markedly from treatment without medication. / these improvements Are clearly As great As those resulting from medication alone and individuals using behaviour therapy do not have the same degree of relapse. Some believe that the most effective treatment ultimately will be a combination of drugs and behaviour therapy. But this has yet to be demonstrated. In the meantime we do know that behaviour therapy is As effective if not More so than drug therapy. Information about behaviour therapists who treat old can be obtained by sending a Long stamped self addressed envelope to the association for the and dear Abby dear Abby As staff of the Exchange club Center for the prevention of child abuse of Southern Minnesota inc., we would like people to know that americans National disgrace and most chilling crime is turning into an epidemic a total of 2.4 million reports of child abuse and neglect were recorded by the nations child welfare system last year. Child abuse continues to get worse and our response As a nation has not always been the most effective. According to recent estimates up to 5,000 children die each year As a direct result of abuse by a Parent or guardian. More than 50 percent of the victims Are less than a year old Abby please publish this prayer to show that child abuse is everyone a problem and that we need to work together to break the Cycle. A prayer for children a a we Pray for children who put chocolate fingers everywhere w to like to be tickled who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants who sneak Popsicle before supper who erase holes in math workbooks who can never find their shoes. A and we Pray for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire who can to bound in the Street in a new pair of sneakers who never go to the circus who live in an a rated world. A we Pray for children who bring us Sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions who sleep with the dog and Bury the goldfish who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch Money who cover themselves with band ids tuesday May 7, .1991 Vance Cut of behaviour therapy 15 w. 36th st., new York . 10018. Dianne a Chambless the american University Washington . Dear Dianne Chambless thanks for your thoughtful comments. Here is a somewhat broader Point of View from a psychiatrist and educator. Dear Ann Landers often medication is the first tactic used to control of cd and once the symptoms Are managed behaviour therapy has proven to be most useful in dealing with the . I believe it is too narrow to ask the question a which is better a too often we professionals tend to apply our own expertise to any patient who presents him or herself. If i am a behaviour therapist i will suggest behaviour therapy. If i am a pharmacy therapist i will recommend medication. Here the old russian saying fits Well a a a r /.  v a if you Are a Hammer All the world looks like a  we should All take Joy in the fact that there Are now at least two effective treatments for people who suffer with old. Layton . University of South Carolina c creators Syndicate Quot and sing off key who squeeze toothpaste All Over the sink who slurp their soup. A and we Pray for those who never get dessert who have no Safe Blanket to drag behind them who watch their parents watch them die who can to find any bread to steal who done to have any rooms to clean up whose pictures Arentt on anybody a Dresser whose monsters Are real. A we Pray for children who spend All their allowance before tuesday who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food who like ghost stories who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse the tub who get visits from the tooth fairy who done to like to be kissed in front of the car Pool who squirm in Church and scream in the phone whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry. A we Pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime who will eat anything who Arentt spoiled by anybody who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep and who live and move but have no being. A we Pray for children who want to be carried and for those who must for those we never give up on and for those who done to get a second Chance. For those we smother. And for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer  Ina. Hughes Abby please help us erase this National tragedy of child abuse by urging your readers to get involved in their local child abuse prevention Effort. Help us to help others to see that a child is too great a gift to abuse. Patricia Kniefel director c Universal press Syndicate the stars and stripes today a crossword Page 19 across 1 restrain 5 thick slice 9 Legal matter 12 wild of of Tibet 13 Warsaw native 14 Osaka Sash 15 sugar source 17-gear tooth 18 alleviate19 Coin substitute 21 Quot who so now Quot 24 foul smelling 25 chinese seaport 26 wife of Ulysses 30 fond due a wis. 31 class or sort 32 Dick a Dyke 33 Little rocks state 35 architect Saarinen 36 neigh born skid 37 nannies 38 German Painter. Engraver 40 Spanish muralist 42 Mound stat. 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