Handbook of Child and Adolescent Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
and Adolescent
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder
Titles of Related Interest
Edited by
Eric A. Storch
Gary R. Geffken
Tanya K. Murphy
University of Florida
Foreword ix
Wayne Goodman
Preface xi
vii
viii CONTENTS
The past decades have witnessed numerous advances in the treatment of ob-
sessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). As happens with many conditions, the
literature on children has lagged behind that of adults. The editors of this
collection on pediatric OCD recognized the need for a new text on the topic
given advances in knowledge in many areas of research. With growing
awareness that childhood onset OCD is common and may represent a mean-
ingful subtype of OCD with unique management challenges, a volume dedi-
cated to the condition is justified and timely. Advances in efficacy of
psychopharmacological intervention in pediatric OCD and concerns about
side effect profiles of antidepressants in children and adolescents emerged
after publication of existing texts. Likewise, new information has emerged
from controlled trials with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Given that
these are the two evidence-based treatments for OCD, this merits an up-
dated review.
In addition to treatment, we have also seen significant advances in the as-
sessment and neurobiology of pediatric OCD. Genetic, neuroimaging and
immunological advances are all included. This text exemplifies the highest
level of integration on evidence based healthcare for pediatric OCD and
captures the background of thought on OCD leading to this comprehensive
and in-depth integration of scientific discovery. Research relevant to the set-
tings of the family, school and primary care is covered in this text, as are OCD
spectrum disorders and comorbidities. This book meets the need to dissemi-
nate information to the international community of psychiatry, psychology,
neuroscience, family practice and pediatric medicine, nursing, and pedagogy.
Antiquated and outdated knowledge of pediatric OCD hinders the recogni-
tion of this condition and referral of those children suffering with this condi-
tion for appropriate treatment.
ix
x FOREWORD
—Wayne Goodman, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Preface
an effort to make this book applicable for a wide audience. With this in mind,
particular strengths of this work include the wide breadth of coverage and
utility for numerous disciplines, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social
workers, pediatricians, graduate students in mental health professions, and
other mental health professionals.
The chapters contained in this volume were designed to provide compre-
hensive, current reviews about the phenomenology, neurobiology, assess-
ment, and treatment of childhood OCD in a manner that captures the
complexities of this condition as well as uncovering areas in need of future
study. The text covers Diagnosis and Assessment, Etiology, Treatment, and
School and Family Issues.
Dr. Alvarenga and colleagues open the volume with a detailed history of
OCD, focusing on early perceptions of OCD, significant milestones in the
field, and future directions. In chapter 2, Dr. Moore and colleagues review
the epidemiology and phenomenology of pediatric OCD, with special atten-
tion to comorbid conditions commonly occurring in the context of OCD.
Drs. Douglas Shytle and Berney Wilkinson discuss psychiatric conditions
that are commonly found in youth with OCD in chapter 3. Dr. Lisa Merlo
and her colleagues provide an overview of recent advances in assessment in
chapter 4, including an introduction to several new assessment instruments
that are included in reproducible forms.
In Etiology, Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz and his colleagues (chap. 6) explore
psychological theories relevant to OCD and its etiology. In chapter 7, Dr.
Tanya Murphy and colleagues review the history, potential etiology, clinical
features, and currently accepted treatments for Pediatric Autoimmune
Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS). In
chapter 8, Drs. Paul Arnold and Margaret Richter provide a comprehensive
and critical review of the literature regarding the probabilistic genetic deter-
minants of OCD.
Dr. Eric Storch and his colleagues cover Treatment with a discussion of
the nature and application of cognitive-behavioral therapy. This chapter is
notable for its pragmatic nature and inclusion of reproducible handouts. Dr.
Daniel Geller provides a comprehensive review in chapter 10 of neuropsych-
iatric models of pediatric OCD and their relation to pharmacological man-
agement. Dr. Geller includes detailed information about medication
treatment of childhood OCD with particular attention to relevant outcome
data. In chapter 11, Drs. Kimberli Treadwell and David Tolin address clinical
challenges common to treating pediatric OCD patients, focusing on issues
such as noncompliance, comorbidity, and family issues. In chapter 12, Dr.
Julia Berkman and her colleagues present a model for the treatment of early-
onset OCD, highlighting the role of family members in intervention.
Finally, Family and School, addresses factors relevant to working with pe-
diatric patients. In chapter 13, Drs. Lara Farrell and Paula Barrett review the
literature on family interactions among OCD patients, highlighting the role
PREFACE xiii
xv
xvi ABOUT THE EDITORS
Pedro G. Alvarenga
Ana G. Hounie
Marcos T. Mercadante
Euripedes C. Miguel
Maria Conceição do Rosario
University of São Paulo Medical School
1
2 ALVARENGA ET AL.
By the first half of the 19th century, along with other changes in medical
thinking, OCD shifted from the religious to the scientific field of enquiry.
Modern concepts of OCD began to evolve in Europe, when psychiatry was
strongly influenced by intellectual streams coursing through philosophy,
physiology, chemistry and other biological sciences (Del Porto, 1994). OC
symptoms were first considered to be a type of “insanity” or madness
(Berrios, 1995, pp. 3–13). Obsessions in which insight was preserved were
gradually distinguished from delusions, in which insight was not preserved.
Compulsions were also distinguished from impulsions, which included a
1. HISTORY OF OCD 3
In the last quarter of the 19th century, there was a shift towards a more psy-
chological view of psychiatric disorders and the definition of OCD as “neur-
asthenia” emerged (Berrios, 1995; Laplanche & Pontallis, 2001). First
coined by George Miller Beard in 1869, the “neurasthenia” concept in-
cluded OC symptoms, as well as numerous other psychiatric symptoms such
as fatigue, anxiety, headache, impotence, neuralgia, and depression, among
others. It was explained as resulting from the exhaustion of the central ner-
vous system’s storage of energy attributed to civilization (Beard, 1869). In
the beginning of the 20th century, both Pierre Janet (1859–1947) and
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) isolated OC symptoms from neurasthenia. In-
fluenced by Morel and Legrand du Saulle, Pierre Janet (1903) proposed that
obsessional patients possessed an abnormal personality, with features such as
anxiety, excessive worrying, lack of energy, and doubting. They described the
successful treatment of compulsions and rituals with techniques consistent
with the later development of behavior therapy (Pitman, 1987; Rachman &
Hodgson, 1980).
Based on a study of 325 patients (with obsessions, compulsions, tics, and
body dysmorphic features), Janet suggested that obsessions and compulsions
were primitive psychological operations derived from diverted nervous en-
ergy (Janet, 1903). Thus, in his classical work, “Les Obsessions et la Psychas-
thenie,” Janet proposed that obsessions and compulsions arise in the third
(final) stage of the psychasthenic illness and described the important role
played in the psychasthenic mental state by symptoms defined as “forced agita-
tions” separated into a mental group (obsessions), a motor group (tics) and an
emotional group (dysmorphophobia; Janet, 1903). This symptomatology is
very similar to the current descriptions of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum
(Stein & Hollander, 1995). The first stage of psychastenia would correspond to
what it is now called obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. The second
1. HISTORY OF OCD 5
Sigmund Freud explored the human mind and developed his approach to
psychology as a comprehensive method and a therapeutic technique to treat
neurosis and other mental disorders. His idea that the mind works through
unconscious processes and that the main cause of neurosis is the repression
of painful memories sequestered from consciousness holds a central place in
psychology today (Laplanche & Pontallis, 2001). Different from the descrip-
tive work produced at his time, Freud was searching for ways of understand-
ing the etiology of the disorders he observed, and how the symptoms
evolved, in a similar way to the challenges faced by modern neuroscience.
In 1895, the term obsessive neurosis “Zwangsneurose”) was first mentioned
in Freud’s paper about “anxiety neurosis” (Freud, 1895/1976, pp. 83–85). In
his study, “Further Remarks on the Neuro-psychoses of Defense,” Freud pro-
posed a revolutionary theory for the existence of obsessional thinking in
which he defined obsessive ideas as “transformed self-reproaches that have
re-emerged from repression and that always relate to some sexual act that
was performed with pleasure in childhood” (Freud, 1896/1976, pp.
181–185). Freud developed a concept of obsessive neurosis that influenced
and then drew on his ideas of mental structure, mental energies, and defense
mechanisms. This concept included intellectualization and isolation (ward-
ing off the effects associated with the unacceptable ideas and impulses), un-
doing (carrying out compulsions to neutralize the offending ideas and
impulses) and reaction formation (adopting character traits exactly opposite
of the feared impulses; Laplanche & Pontallis, 2001).
A great proportion of Freud’s thinking about obsessive neurosis was for-
mulated in 1909 with his famous description of the case of “The rat man,” in
which Freud described the psychoanalytical treatment of a 29-year old man
who developed certain impulses (Zwangshandlung) against aggressive and
sexual obsessions since his early childhood. Later in his life, the patient came
across a senior military officer who conveyed a particularly sadistic method of
punishment that involved confining rats and placing them in the victim’s
anus (Freud, 1909/1976). At this moment, Freud’s patient reportedly started
obsessing that his dead father and a young lady he liked could have suffered
this type of torture. Although the patient expressed horror as he mentioned
it in his analysis, Freud interpreted it as one of “horror at pleasure of his own
desires, of which he himself was unaware.” The precipitating cause of this
man’s obsessions was never clearly identified by Freud or by the patient him-
6 ALVARENGA ET AL.
In 1903, Pierre Janet reported the case of a 5-year-old boy presenting with
“repetitive thoughts,” similar to “mental tics” (Leonard & Rapoport, 1991).
This is considered to be the first description of OCD in childhood. In his
book Obsessive Children, Adams described 49 children with OC symptoms,
highlighting the higher proportion of boys in his sample (39 boys and 10 girls;
Adams, 1973). In 1965, Skoog reported that “obsessive neurosis” started
earlier than most of the psychiatric problems. At least in his sample, 15.5% of
the patients had had the onset of the OC symptoms before the age of 19.
Among these, in 10% of the patients, the symptoms started before age 14
and for 6% of them the OC symptom onset was before age 10 (Skoog, 1965).
Until the 1980s, descriptions of OCD in children and adolescents were
rare and limited by small sample sizes. It was only in 1989 that the NIMH
1. HISTORY OF OCD 7
published the first longitudinal study of OCD children and adolescents using
specific diagnostic criteria defined by the DSM–III (American Psychological
Association [APA], 1980). They interviewed 5596 students from eight dif-
ferent schools and found prevalence rates of 0.4% (Flament et al., 1989).
The authors emphasized that the rates would probably be underestimated
because some of the more severe cases could not be attending school or could
be among the 557 students that did not return their questionnaires (Flament
et al., 1989). Zohar et al. (1992) reported, in Israeli adolescents, a prevalence
of 3.5% for OCD, including subclinical cases (Zohar et al., 1992). Valleni-
Basilie et al. (1994) found even higher prevalence rates with 3% meeting cri-
teria for OCD and 19% for the presence of OC symptoms. Another epidemi-
ological study of the prevalence of self-reported OCD at age 18 including 930
individuals found a 1-year prevalence rate of 4% (Douglass, Moffitt, Dar,
McGee, and Silva, 1995).
More recent studies of children and adolescents with OCD have also re-
ported, compared to adults, higher prevalence of OCD in boys, higher comor-
bidity with tic disorders, and higher rates of both OCD and tics among their
first-degree family members. For instance, Swedo, Rapoport, Leonard,
Lenane, and Cheslow (1989) described that 20% of the initial NIMH sample
developed tics, even though having tics was an exclusion criteria for partici-
pating in the study. The aforementioned clinical and epidemiological stud-
ies—which showed that OCD is, in fact, a common disorder affecting adults,
adolescents, and children from different countries, independent of race, reli-
gion or socioeconomical status—changed the history of OCD. Some other
heuristic changes in the history of OCD are presented in the following section.
tems. This creates complexity that could limit the acceptance of some im-
provements in the classification of patients, such as the use of a dimensional
perspective for diagnosis.
Sydenham’s chorea. This was a milestone in the history of OCD and was fol-
lowed by two lines of research. One of them investigated the association be-
tween OCD and tics and the other one tried to explore the immunological
hypothesis for OCD etiology.
The association between OCD and TS has been suggested since the origi-
nal descriptions of Gilles de la Tourette in 1885 (Tourette, 1885), and has
been reinforced by clinical (Miguel et al., 1997); genetic (Grados, Walkup, &
Walford, 2003; Leckman et al., 2003; Paul, Alsobrook, Goodman, Rasmus-
sen, & Leckman, 1995; Rosario-Campos et al., 2005); and treatment re-
sponse studies (Diniz et al., 2004). Interestingly, the link between
Sydenham’s chorea and tics had been described in the 19th century
(Kushner, 1998). Recently, environmental factors have been implicated in
the genesis of OCD. In the past 10 years, a group of prepubertal children with
abrupt onset of OCD and tics following infection by specific strains of
ß-hemolytic streptococci has been identified (Swedo et al., 1997). The asso-
ciation between streptococcal infection and these neuropsychiatric disor-
ders has been attributed to antibodies directed against invading bacteria that
cross-react with basal ganglia structures and other findings involving immu-
nological markers (Mercadante, 2001). Swedo and colleagues name this sub-
group of neuropsychiatric disorders with the acronym PANDAS (Pediatric
Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus;
Swedo et al., 1998). The validity of PANDAS as an independent entity has
been discussed. Although potentially promising for these highly selected
patients, active immunomodulatory therapies require further validation by
controlled double-blind protocols (Singer, 1999).
Regarding an evolutionary and ethologic perspective, contemporary re-
search has been correlating a variety of ritualistic and grooming behaviors in
animals with OCD and related disorders. Based on phenomenological as-
pects and pharmacological response, Rapoport, Ryland, and Kriete (1992)
proposed that canine acral lick dermatitis could be an animal model of OCD.
Furthermore, Leckman and Mayes (1994) considered some normal cogni-
tive, affiliative, grooming, and reproductive behaviors mediated by oxytocin
in rodents to contain elements that are similar to OC symptoms. Anecdotal
data and a recently completed cerebrospinal fluid study provided evidence
that some subtypes of OCD are related to oxitocin dysfunction. Based on
these findings, Leckman and Mayes (1994) hypothesized that preoccupa-
tions and behaviors associated with early phases of romantic love and early
parental love could be considered normal physiological behaviors bridging a
continuum with OCD.
CONCLUSIONS
The literature has come a long way since the initial descriptions of OC symp-
toms as a punishment by the Greek gods or as evil influences on the patient’s
1. HISTORY OF OCD 11
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