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Diagnostic and Severity Measures for Adults with Obsessive‐Compulsive Related Disorders

Abstract

This chapter reviews popular clinician‐administered and self‐report instruments for assessing severity of a range of obsessive‐compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), including OCD, hoarding disorder (HD), trichotillomania (TTM), excoriation disorder (ED), and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). It focuses on the assessment of DSM‐5 OCRDs, and includes disorders problems that are often comorbid with OCRDs or that have been previously grouped with OCRDs in the literature on these disorders, such as tic disorders (e.g., Tourette's disorder), hypochondriasis and health anxiety, and perfectionism. The chapter aims to discuss relevant assessment tools and to provide recommendations for clinicians by summarizing the purpose, psychometrics, strengths, and weaknesses for the most commonly used assessment measures. It is important for assessment to include a range of strategies, including a thorough clinical interview (perhaps with multiple informants) and behavioral methods, such as diaries, behavioral approach tests, and direct measures of target behaviors (e.g., collecting pulled hairs, in the case of trichotillomania).

Authors

Taillefer S; Antony MM

Book title

The Wiley Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Pagination

pp. 873-889

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

January 1, 2017

DOI

10.1002/9781118890233.ch49
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