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Understanding Therapeutic Considerations While Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Case Study
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical psychology, Amity University, Lucknow. India Google Scholar More about the auther
Post Graduate Trainee, Department of FMT, IGIMS, Patna, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.080/20170404
DOI: 10.25215/0404.080
ABSTRACT
Obsessive thoughts and compulsive urges are part of the normal feedback and control loop between our thoughts and our actions. It is only when these obsessive thoughts become so intense and frequent and these compulsive rituals become so extensive that they interfere with an individual’s functioning that the diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is made. The mainstays of treatment of OCD includes Serotoninergic antidepressant medications, particular forms of Behavior Therapy (Exposure and Response Prevention and some forms of CBT), education and family interventions. Because they are aware of how irrational their behavior is, many sufferers are ashamed of their actions and go to great lengths to hide their symptoms. It is extremely important that as a therapist, one is able to build a safe and accepting therapeutic environment and also structures therapy based on the unique presentation of illness where sometimes symptoms themselves may cause non compliance to therapy process. The author presents and discusses a case where Cognitive Behavior Therapy was used.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2017 Baveja D, & Goel N
Received: July 18, 2017; Revision Received: August 20, 2017; Accepted: August 09, 2017
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.080/20170404
10.25215/0404.080
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 4, July-September, 2017