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Obsessive-compulsive disorder: The secretive syndrome

✍ Scribed by Harvey F. Clarizio

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
763 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0033-3085

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✦ Synopsis

This article reviews the current research and latest clinical views on obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) in school-age youth. Common compulsions center around washing, counting, and checking, whereas typical obsessions involve themes of aggression, contaminations, sex, order, and scrupulosity. Because those affected with OCD tend to keep their ritualistic behaviors hidden, we have tended to seriously underestimate the prevalence of the condition, which authorities now believe is 20 to 40 times more common in youth than previously estimated. Discussion focuses on differentiation from normality and related psychopathological disorders, biological and psychological factors in etiology, school adjustment, continuity from childhood to adulthood, and drug as well as behavioral therapies. Implications for school psychologists are presented.

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