BOSTON — Behavioral avoidance could limit the long-term efficacy of exposure response prevention (ERP), a widely used treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a new analysis shows. Although ...

OCD can manifest itself in many different ways, such as a focus on contamination and cleaning, or compulsions to make your environment symmetrical.

What is pathological demand avoidance? The condition explained - McFly drummer’s wife has said one of their children has ...

This week you will learn more about avoidance and why avoiding things that make you anxious will not help you overcome your anxiety. You will also learn about behaviors that we call “quick fixes” ...

“Quick fixes” are another type of behavior that your child may engage in when they are feeling anxious. In addition to avoidance, your child may perform certain behaviors or actions over and over ...

To most parents, a toddler's insistence on the "right" plate or bedtime routine seems like a normal developmental quirk or just the latest cause of a meltdown. However, for some children, these ...

At its core, anxiety is all about an intolerance of risk. All forms of anxiety, in one way or another, boil down to trying too hard to make sure that bad things don't happen. The opposite is also true ...

Whatever it looks like, school refusal in children and teenagers is real. Whether refusing to attend school through gulps of tears, or giving up after an inability to focus on tasks that will get them ...