Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects up to 4% of children and adolescents (Nazeer et al., 2020). Childhood OCD impairs overall quality of life, particularly in familial, social and academic settings. For individuals with OCD, obsessions — unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses that cause distress are subsequently reduced by compulsions — behaviors that are designed to assuage the distress of the obsessions, according to set rules or senses of completion (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Common obsessions surround core fears of harm avoidance, disgust and/or a sense of incompleteness, leading to common compulsions of repeating, checking, avoidance, and/or other rituals.
DOI: 10.1002/cbl.30743
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4387220363