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Created by Dr. Wayne Goodman and Dr. Gary Roy Geffken, the UF OCD program focuses on training and treatment of refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder.The program originated as a stand-alone clinic within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida and has expanded to a clinic integrated with Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the now-defunct University of Florida Eating ...
MindSpot’s remit is to improve access to mental health services, improve public awareness of how to access services and provide evidence-based treatments. [4]MindSpot offers two services – screening assessments and treatment courses – to help people learn about and manage stress, anxiety, low mood, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
Dr. McIngvale is the director of the OCD Institute of Texas, a specialized residential and intensive treatment center for OCD. McIngvale serves on multiple non-profit boards and is an advocate/speaker for mental illness on a national platform. Dr. McIngvale also founded and runs the OCD Challenge website which is a free self-help website for OCD.
Beyond cognitive restructuring, which falls under the broader cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), there’s exposure and response prevention (ERP), the gold standard for OCD treatment.
OCD is often considered a quirk or a helpful personality trait, but it’s more serious and often more debilitating than that, experts say. Here’s what you need to know.
Inference-based therapy was developed in the late 1990s for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. [3] [4] Initially, the model was developed mostly for obsessive-compulsive disorder with overt compulsions and for individuals presenting obsessive-compulsive disorder with overvalued ideas (i.e., obsessions with a bizarre content and strongly invested by the individual, such as feeling dirty ...
The technique is based on semantic network models [3] as well as studies showing that mental associations in patients with OCD are restricted to the obsessive-compulsive meaning. [4] A systematic review found evidence for the efficacy of the technique. [5] The manual for the technique is available online in seven languages.
OCD Awareness Week was launched in 2009 by the International OCD Foundation. [2] Its goal is an international effort to raise awareness and understanding about Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders and to help get more people access to treatment for the condition. [2] It takes place in the second week of October each year.