OCD
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- Created on: 17-05-14 13:33
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- OCD treatments
- Cognitive treatments
- Aims to replace unrealistic thoughts with more realistic ones
- Aims to identify, challenge and replace thoughts with more constructive thinking patterns.
- Attempts to change thoughts
- Help people understand that they are misinterpreting thoughts
- Make people feel guilty
- Make people aware that they need to neutralize thoughts
- By making amends for thoughts
- Once achieved, the therapist will try to change these thoughts through catastrophic thinking
- Help people understand that they are misinterpreting thoughts
- Schwartz 4 steps
- RELABEL – Recognize that the intrusive obsessive thoughts and urges are the result of OCD
- REATTRIBUTE – Realize that the intensity and intrusiveness of the thought or urge is caused by OCD; it is probably related to a biochemical imbalance in the brain.
- REFOCUS – Work around the OCD thoughts by focusing your attention on something else, at least for a few minutes. Do another behavior.
- REVALUE – Do not take the OCD thought at face value. It is not significant in itself.
- Habituation training
- Think repeatdly about obsessive thought so that it becomes less anxiety provoking
- Rufer:
- 30 impatients over 6 years and found that cog treatments is the most successful at reducing obsessive thoughts especially when combined with behavioural - found to decrease frequency and duration of thoughts
- Biological treatments
- Drug treatments aim to change the level of nuerotransmitters in the brain
- If drug treatments dont work, nuerosurgery can be performed
- Riddle:
- Investigate the safety of SSRI's in children and adolescents.with a placebo over the course of 10 weeks. there was a 42% reduction in symptoms over the 10 weeks but most difference in the first few weeks compared to 26% with the placebo. Found to be effective and tolerant for children in the short term treatment of OCD
- Evaluation
- Quicker and cheaper than psychotherapy
- Side effect include nausea and relapse if come of medication.Valium is highly addictive and can cause withdrawl symptons
- Drugs dont treat the cause so if come off it relapse will occur
- A combination of drugs and therapy may be effective rather than on their own as the cause will be investigated
- Safe and tolerant so can be used on children and in the long term
- Cognitive treatments
- Evaluation
- Can be preacticed at any time so it helps maintain ability to cope
- must be articulate and ready to be challenged - do therefore it is not suited to all people
- follow up studies have found that it works
- a lot of empiritcal evidence, especially when combine with behavioural
- Cognitive treatments
- Aims to replace unrealistic thoughts with more realistic ones
- Aims to identify, challenge and replace thoughts with more constructive thinking patterns.
- Attempts to change thoughts
- Help people understand that they are misinterpreting thoughts
- Make people feel guilty
- Make people aware that they need to neutralize thoughts
- By making amends for thoughts
- Once achieved, the therapist will try to change these thoughts through catastrophic thinking
- Help people understand that they are misinterpreting thoughts
- Schwartz 4 steps
- RELABEL – Recognize that the intrusive obsessive thoughts and urges are the result of OCD
- REATTRIBUTE – Realize that the intensity and intrusiveness of the thought or urge is caused by OCD; it is probably related to a biochemical imbalance in the brain.
- REFOCUS – Work around the OCD thoughts by focusing your attention on something else, at least for a few minutes. Do another behavior.
- REVALUE – Do not take the OCD thought at face value. It is not significant in itself.
- Habituation training
- Think repeatdly about obsessive thought so that it becomes less anxiety provoking
- Rufer:
- 30 impatients over 6 years and found that cog treatments is the most successful at reducing obsessive thoughts especially when combined with behavioural - found to decrease frequency and duration of thoughts
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