Cognitive-Behavior Therapy and Sertraline for OCD

Abstract

The efficacy of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) alone and medical management with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor sertraline alone, or CBT and sertraline combined, as initial treatment for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), was evaluated by a randomized controlled trial conducted at Duke, Penn and Brown Universities.

Keywords

• cognitive-behavior therapy
• obsessive-compulsive disorder
• diarrhea