Society guideline links: Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP): Guidelines for treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and posttraumatic stress disorders – Version 3. Part II: OCD and PTSD (2022)

Canada

●Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada (ADAC): Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders (2014)

United States

●American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS): Systematic review and evidence-based guideline on deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder (2014, updated 2020)

●American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP): Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (2012)

●American Psychiatric Association (APA): Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (2007)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on deep brain stimulation for chronic, severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance for transcranial magnetic stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder (2020)

●British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP): Evidence-based pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder – A revision of the 2005 guidelines (2014)