Citation

Storch EA, Heidgerken AD, Adkins JW, Cole M, Murphy TK, Geffken GR. Depress. Anxiety 2005; 21(1): 41-44.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA. estorch@psychiatry.ufl.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/da.20040

PMID

15660378

Abstract

We describe an adolescent boy's experience of peer victimization and its relation with his development of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Subsequent to being peer victimized, this boy was seen for 20 sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy over the course of 4 weeks that followed the protocol outlined by March and Mulle in 1998. Standardized post-treatment assessment indicated significant reductions in OCD, depressive, and anxious symptomatology as compared to baseline. This case illustrates how negative peer experiences may be related to the development and maintenance of OCD.

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