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Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
May 26, 2024·17 min·1 clip
An 8-year-old girl spends over two hours daily washing her hands and develops rigid bedtime rituals, revealing the sudden onset of pediatric OCD.
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A steady clinical walkthrough of pediatric OCD that turns criteria into something usable.
This episode treats pediatric OCD as a working clinical problem, not a label to toss around. It walks through how it shows up in children, where it differs from adult OCD, and how to spot it by looking at symptoms, DSM-5 criteria, screening tools, causes, comorbidity, and…
Why you'd press play
When pediatric OCD shows up as ritualistic behavior, intrusive thoughts, and symptom clusters, this gives you the framework.
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