Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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Published:2012-04-03
Issue:4
Volume:24
Page:211-213
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ISSN:1084-8223
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Container-title:Home Health Care Management & Practice
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Home Health Care Management & Practice
Affiliation:
1. Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA
Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic mental illness (psychiatric disorder) that is characterized by distressing intrusive obsessive thoughts and fears and/or repetitive compulsive actions (rituals) that are done to prevent or reduce anxiety or distress, not to provide pleasure or gratification. It is a lifelong mental illness and recovery from it is gradual and ongoing treatment is necessary to help prevent relapses.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Community and Home Care,Leadership and Management
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1. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed., text revision. Washington, DC; American Psychiatric Association; 2000:462.
2. Assessment of obsessivecompulsive disorder