Comorbidity Among Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Nicole Neil, Laura Moum, and Peter Sturmey
in Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention
Comorbid conditions are common in children and youth with autism spectrum disorders. This chapter reviews the evidence on assessment, treatment and symptom overlap for Attention ...
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The Structure, Validity, and Specificity of OCD Symptoms
David Watson and Michael W. O’Hara
in Understanding the Emotional Disorders: A Symptom-Level Approach Based on the IDAS-II
This chapter reviews early attempts to assess obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms, as well as the structural evidence that eventually led to the identification of core, consensual ...
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Understanding the Emotional Disorders: A Symptom-Level Approach Based on the IDAS-II
David Watson and Michael W. O'Hara
Understanding the Emotional Disorders: A Symptom-Based Approach examines replicable symptom dimensions contained within five adjacent diagnostic classes in the fifth edition of ...
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When you meet: assessing obsessive-compulsive disorder
Victoria Bream, Fiona Challacombe, Asmita Palmer, and Paul Salkovskis
in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
This chapter provides a practical guide to assessing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that is both informative to the inexperienced clinician and addresses questions raised by the ...
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Introduction
S. Rachman
in The Treatment of Obsessions
This chapter presents an introduction to this title and the treatment of obsessions. It discusses obsessions and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as the general processes and ...
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Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
Martin Brüne
in Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine: The Origins of Psychopathology (2 ed.)
Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders comprise several syndromes, to which repetitive thoughts or behaviours are central. Compulsive behaviour is concerned most with hygiene, ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Marco Del Giudice
in Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
The chapter discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a condition defined by the presence of intrusive mental contents (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions). After an ...
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Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Colleen A. Ryan and Michael L. Trieu
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 92 explores pediatric psychopharmacology used to treat depressive disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, non-obsessive compulsive disorder anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, ...
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Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Martin E. Franklin, Moira A. Rynn, Edna B. Foa, and John S. March
in Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinican's Guide to Effective Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions
This chapter reviews the literature pertaining to the clinical manifestation, diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents. ...
Schizotypy and obsessive-compulsive disorder
Simon Enright and Anthony Beech
in Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health
This chapter explores schizotypy and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It first presents an overview of OCD, and OCD as an anxiety disorder, before discussing the relationship between ...
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Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm, Therapist Guide
John Piacentini, Audra Langley, and Tami Roblek
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has shown to be effective in the treatment of childhood OCD. This online Therapist Guide outlines a 12-session CBT-based treatment for OCD that benefits ...
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Introduction
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
This chapter presents a general introduction to the nature of contamination and compulsive behaviour. It outlines the links to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the historical and ...
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Treatment
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
The prevailing treatment for the fear of (contact) contamination, exposure and response prevention (ERP), is well-established and moderately effective in many cases. In most instances the ...
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Contamination after actual or perceived violation
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
This chapter explores contamination are an actual or perceived violation. It discusses mental pollution, contamination arising from perceived violation, self-contamination, and the fear of ...
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Disgust and the DSM
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
This chapter explores feelings of disgust, and its potential for inclusion in the DSM. It discusses the similarities and differences between fear and disgust, as well as the interaction ...
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Mental contamination: ‘This disease is beyond my practice.’
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
This chapter discusses mental contamination. It presents case illustrations of mental contamination, the assessment of mental contamination (including probes), and secondary sources of ...
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Contamination defined and classified
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
This chapter discusses definitions and classifications of contamination and fears of contamination. It explores the co-occurrence of contact and mental contamination, and mixed cases of ...
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Contact contamination
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
This chapter explores contact contamination. Using an illustrative case study, it outlines features of contact contamination, as well as primary and secondary sources of contamination. ...
Assessing contamination
S. Rachman
in The Fear of Contamination: Assessment and treatment
This chapter discusses the assessment of contamination. It details behavioral assessments, psychometrics and psychometric data, and the assessment of mental contamination. ...
Anxiety Disorders in Asians
Janie J. Hong
in Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chapter 7 discusses anxiety disorders in Asians. It considers the identification of anxiety disorders (DSM nosology and criteria for anxiety disorders, specific phobias, panic attacks, ...
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