Childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Childhood OCD is a distressing and debilitating condition. Childhood OCD is not a simple exaggeration of the rituals and superstitions that occur over the course of normal development. More males than females are diagnosed as having OCD. Not unexpectedly, anxiety and affective disorders are often associated with childhood OCD. Compulsive personality disorder is also an associated feature for a proportion of children with OCD. Treatment usually involves individual psychotherapy and family counselling, although behavioural treatment and medication (clomipramine) have also been used by clinicians.