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Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Tools for recognizing its many expressions

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Second, the Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale—Child Report and Parent Report27 consist of 2 subscales assessing the distress and impairment caused by Obsessions and Compulsions. Items are related to 1) time devoted to obsessions/compulsions, 2) functional impairment, 3) level of distress, 4) attempts to resist obsessions/compulsions, and 5) success in resisting obsessions/compulsions. The parent-report version of this questionnaire is included in APPENDIX B.

Third, the Child Obsessive Compulsive Impact Scale (COIS)28 assesses the extent to which symptoms cause impairment in specific areas of child psychosocial functioning (eg, school activities, social activities, and home/family activities).

Fourth, the Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Student Inventory29 is a teacherrated measure that can be used to assess symptom presence and severity in the school setting.

Part 2 of this article discusses treatment strategies for OCD. Look for it in next month’s JFP.

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Eric A. Storch, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Box 100234, Gainesville, FL 32610. E-mail: estorch@psychiatry.ufl.edu

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