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Clinical recommendations
offered
(July 2008
Issue)
Based on the study's findings, Freeman and colleagues owwffer the
following clinical considerations and recommendations:
- Treatment of children experiencing early childhood-onset OCD
will be most effective if parents are involved in all phases of
treatment.
- Clinicians should consider the child's unique developmental
characteristics and tailor psychoeducation, exposures and homework
accordingly.
- Clinicians should take time to understand the family context
and, in particular, the parents' response to their child's anxieties.
- Teach parents to tolerate their own anxiety about their child's
level of distress.
- Use humor generously.
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