title: Obsessive-compulsive disorder in youth: assessment and treatment.
abstract: For pediatric patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, clinicians must address particular diagnostic and treatment challenges. Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder may have little insight into their obsessions and compulsions, requiring clinicians to provide age-appropriate education, motivation, and therapy. Treatment should take into account children's developmental level, family accommodation, and comorbidities. If the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder is sudden, clinicians may use pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome criteria and conduct appropriate tests.
authors.affiliation: From the Lindner Center of HOPE and Lindner Center Professional Associates, Mason, Ohio, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati Physicians, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: Jennifer G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Wells
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy