Therapist guided, parent-led cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for pre-adolescent children with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) : a non-concurrent multiple baseline case series

BACKGROUND: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) including exposure and response prevention (ERP) is an effective treatment for preadolescent children with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); however, there is a need to increase access to this treatment for affected children.

AIMS: This study is a preliminary evaluation of the efficacy and acceptability of a brief therapist-guided, parent-led CBT intervention for pre-adolescent children (5-12 years old) with OCD using a non-concurrent multiple baseline approach.

METHOD: Parents of 10 children with OCD were randomly allocated to no-treatment baselines of 3, 4 or 5 weeks before receiving six to eight individual treatment sessions with a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. Diagnostic measures were completed prior to the baseline, 1-week post-treatment, and at a 1-month follow-up, and parents completed weekly measures of children's OCD symptoms/impairment.

RESULTS: Seventy percent of children were 'responders' and/or 'remitters' on diagnostic measures at post-treatment, and 60% at the 1-month follow-up. At least 50% of children showed reliable improvements on parent-reported OCD symptoms/impairment from pre- to post-treatment, and from pre-treatment to 1-month follow-up. Crucially, the intervention was acceptable to parents.

CONCLUSIONS: Brief therapist-guided, parent-led CBT has the potential to be an effective, acceptable and accessible first-line treatment for pre-adolescent children with OCD, subject to the findings of further evaluations.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:52

Enthalten in:

Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy - 52(2024), 3 vom: 25. Apr., Seite 243-261

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chessell, Chloe [VerfasserIn]
Halldorsson, Brynjar [VerfasserIn]
Walters, Sasha [VerfasserIn]
Farrington, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Harvey, Kate [VerfasserIn]
Creswell, Cathy [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CBT
Children
Exposure and response prevention (ERP)
Journal Article
Paediatric OCD
Parents
Randomized Controlled Trial
Treatment

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Date Completed 05.04.2024

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S1352465823000450

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363329943