Editorial: Cognitive Behavior Therapy Versus Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

How should we choose treatment for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder? Current AACAP guidelines recommend cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) alone for those with milder symptoms, with consideration of serotonin reuptake inhibitors added to CBT for children with scores higher than 23 on the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CYBOCS).1 The Pediatric OCD Treatment Study (POTS) 2 found that "The rate of clinical remission for combined treatment was 53.6%,... for CBT alone, 39.3%,...

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - March 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joseph Strayhorn Tags: Editorial Source Type: research