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Providing a comprehensive overview of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), this book brings together timely contributions from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. In sections covering psychopathology, assessment and treatment, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, chapters contain a wealth of new and recent data, numerous case examples, and helpful conceptual and clinical pointers. An appendix features extensive resource listings for both clinicians and patients.
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Contains 18 contributions on the common anxiety disorder. Topics include diagnostic issues, cognitive and behavioral features of the disorder, the seratonin hypothesis, genetics of the disorder, psychosocial treatments, biological treatments, the disorder among children and adolescents, and related disorders. Where relevant, the papers include findings from the database compiled by two of the editors at the Anxiety Disorders Clinic of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto. Appends resources on OCD and OCD spectrum disorders for clinicians. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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