Module introduction

Welcome to this CPD Online module, The assessment and management of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Part 1. We hope you find it an enjoyable learning experience.

 

Learning outcomes

 

By the end of this module, we hope you will be able to:

 

  • demonstrate a knowledge of the prevalence of OCD, and of groups most at risk of developing the disorder

 

  • recognise the most common symptoms of OCD

 

  • describe the various aetiological theories, including neuroanatomical, neurochemical, genetic, immunological and psychological

 

  • appreciate the differing diagnostic and assessment tools of OCD.

 

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