Obsessive-Compulsive and Tic-Related Disorders

摘要

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and tic disorders (TDs) affect many children and adolescents worldwide and are associated with substantial functional impairment in afflicted youth. Fortunately, in the last decade both conditions have been the focus of clinical research that has clarified key phenomenologic issues and provided empirical support for treatments including disorder-specific cognitive-behavioral interventions (eg, Refs). The co-occurrence of these disorders, which seems to be common, poses a particular challenge to clinicians with respect to making treatment recommendations to families and to implementing the chosen interventions. This review provides information regarding the psychopathology of each of these conditions separately and when comorbid, as well as an outline of the empirically grounded and clinically informed approach to treatment of OCD and TDs.