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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
1Department of Veteran Affairs, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. svalente@hsc.usc.edu
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
|March 13, 2003
Abstract
Topic:
Identification and management of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Purpose:
To increase advanced practice clinicians' awareness of the prevalence, screening tools, diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, and therapeutic management of OCD.
Sources:
Published literature.
Conclusions:
Nurses have a pivotal role in teaching self-management techniques to people with OCD.