Editorial:Durable Long-Term Benefits of High-Quality Evidence-Based Care for Children and Adolescents With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be enormously taxing for affected youth and their families; the distress, impairment, and family upheaval that it brings are well documented.1 Both exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and pharmacological interventions are efficacious for reducing symptoms and functional impairment, producing mean effect sizes of g=1.21 and g=0.50 respectively.2 These treatments —whether administered alone or in combination—form the backbone of our current suite of interventions.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research