Research evidence confirms the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for OCD, but not all of patients can benefit from CBT.There are many issues about clinical application, such as lack of theoretical knowledge about OCD and CBT, lack of clinical practice of CBT for OCD, including dynamic evaluation, combination with medicine, and family compliance behavior intervention, supervision, and case management, which are required to pay attention.How to efficiently carry out CBT treatment and comprehensive intervention of OCD has become a concern of clinical medical staff and researchers.This article aims to explore the current status of CBT for OCD and standardize the clinical application of CBT.Multi-dimensional analysis of the clinical application and research of CBT for OCD was attempted to explore improvement of strategies for clinicians in terms of update of knowledge system for OCD and CBT, clinical treatment practice and implementation process details of CBT, and OCD multi-dimensional management.In the future, a variety of effective forms of optimized CBT could be introduced, and the local applicability studies and randomized controlled studies of clinical interventions will help the effective development and application of CBT for OCD.