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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by obsessions (intrusive or unwanted thoughts) and/or compulsions (behaviors that aim to rid oneself of the obsessions and/or decrease distress). Disorders related to OCD include:
  • Tic Disorders, including Tourette Syndrome
  • Some Impulse Control Disorders
  • Body-focused Repetitive Behaviors, including trichotillomania and dermotillomania (excoriation disorder)
  • Hoarding Disorder
  • PANDAS/PANS
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Assessment & Screening Tools

OCD
  • Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
  • Repetitive Thoughts and Behaviors (Adapted from C-FOCI) 
  • Nonsuicidal Self-Injury - Severity

Tics/Tourette's
  • Massachusetts General Hair-Pulling Scale Trichotillomania Scale for Children
  • PUTS Scale

Trichotillomania
  • Trichotillomania Scale for Children (see pg. 344)

PANDAS/PANS
  • Symptom Scales

​Hoarding Disorder
  • Structured Interview for Hoarding Disorder (Pertusa, 2013) (not validated in children/adolescents)
  • Hoarding Assessment Tool (Steketee & Frost, 2007) (not validated in children/adolescents)
  • Hoarding Rating Scale self report tool (Tolin, Frost & Steketee, 2010) (not validated in children/adolescents)

Position Papers & Practice Parameters

  • AACAP's Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (includes section on Tic Disorders)

Articles

  • A meta-analysis of CBT and medication for child obsessive-compulsive disorder: moderators of treatment efficacy, response, and remission (McGuire, Piacentini, Lewin, et al, 2015)
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents (Krebs & Heyman, 2015)
  • Childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder (Sarvet, 2013)
  • A review of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents (Boileau, 2011)

Resources

  • Beyond OCD
  • Trichotillomania Learning Center
  • Tourettes Action (UK site, school support information)
  • Home Management Strategies for OCD
  • How to help Your Child: A Parent's Guide to OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Foundation of Metro Chicago, sponsored by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America)
  • Kids and OCD: The Parents' Role in Treatment (Child Mind Institute)
  • Children's book: Unraveling Rose by Brian Wray

Organizations

  • International OCD Association  (AKA Obsessive Compulsive Foundation)
  • Madison Institute of Medicine
  • International OCD Foundation 






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