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Created by Dr. Wayne Goodman and Dr. Gary Roy Geffken, the UF OCD program focuses on training and treatment of refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder.The program originated as a stand-alone clinic within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida and has expanded to a clinic integrated with Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the now-defunct University of Florida Eating ...
The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) is a 20-item self-report instrument that assesses the severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms along four empirically supported theme-based dimensions: (a) contamination, (b) responsibility for harm and mistakes, (c) incompleteness/symmetry, and (d) unacceptable (taboo) thoughts. [1]
The model suggests that many conditions overlap with OCD in symptomatic profile, demographics, family history, neurobiology, comorbidity, clinical course and response to various pharmacotherapies. [1] Conditions described as being on the spectrum are sometimes referred to as obsessive–compulsive spectrum disorders.
MindSpot’s remit is to improve access to mental health services, improve public awareness of how to access services and provide evidence-based treatments. [4]MindSpot offers two services – screening assessments and treatment courses – to help people learn about and manage stress, anxiety, low mood, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
OCD Awareness Week was launched in 2009 by the International OCD Foundation. [2] Its goal is an international effort to raise awareness and understanding about Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders and to help get more people access to treatment for the condition. [2] It takes place in the second week of October each year.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function.
Intrusive thoughts may occur in persons with Tourette syndrome (TS) who also have OCD; the obsessions in TS-related OCD are thought to respond to SSRI drugs as well. [ 73 ] Antidepressants that have been shown to be effective in treating OCD include fluvoxamine (trade name [ a ] Luvox), fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), paroxetine ...
The Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is a test to rate the severity of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms.. The scale, which was designed by Wayne K. Goodman and his colleagues in 1989, is used extensively in research and clinical practice to both determine severity of OCD and to monitor improvement during treatment. [1]