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Treatments of OCD - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Fairly high success in reducing symptoms
      - Considered "safe"
      - Most used treatment for ocd and therefore most applicable research
      - Easy to take, need little motivation
    - - Side effects include nausea, headaches, insomnia etc
      - May only be treating symptoms and not causes
        
        Symptoms return a few days after treatment stops
        
        Does not alter the persons environment or does not consider causes
      - Reductionist appraoch
        Does not account for other approaches
  - - - Effective, 60-90% patients show significant improvement according to different studies
    - - Effectiveness depends on effort put in by patient (are they prepared to do their homework and put methods into action outside of sessions?)
      - Time consuming
        
        13-20 weekly sessions
        
        Monthly booster can be added for up to 6months after to prevent relapse
      - Doesn't work for those who are very deeply affected and hoarders
      - Also
        reductionist
  - - - Evidence that CT alone can improve symptoms by 20% exists
        
        However, the treatment is usually combined with another treatment
      - Effective when medicine has not worked
      - Short time to complete
    - - Requires considerable motivation and effort
        
        Some may not want their thinking challenged and arent motivated enough to put therapies into practice
      - Reductionist
        Does not consider other approaches
      - Have to keep track of all their intrusive thoughts, etc.
        
        May be uncomfortable for some patients
- - - - Strengths
        
        Effective
        
        CBT has proven to be overall effective in most aspects of patients lives as it involves changing unwanted behaviour and thoughts.
        
        self manageable
        
        The techniques taught will be helpful even after you no longer need CBT and they help you in the long term as well.
      - Weaknesses
        
        time consuming
        
        need to take continous sessions for months for it to be helpful
        
        expensive
        
        sessions are expensive
        
        involves opening up to the therapist and making life style changes
        
        clients will be uncomfortable with opening up to the therapist because it can trigger painful memories that patients do not want to remember and clients have to make changes which they may be uncomfortable with.
- - - - Strengths: SSRIs have a high success rate in reducing symptoms. The study is applicable to real life.
      - Weaknesses: They are usually considered safe but the use of them are usually restricted from people within the younger range since it may negatively affect them and conducting studies with children is sometimes unethical. Also, it does not take into account people that have OCD but no serotonin deficit. It is also reductionist.
- - - - The next step involved exposing Jsson to stimuli which he felt anixtety from. The exposure involved Jason to interact and touch things which caused disgust such as door knobs, until he became habituated and anxiety levels dropped, Exposures became increasingly difficult allowing Jason to interact with things hat cuased significant axniety. He pracitced by excuting speciifcs tasks in normal envirement that deal with his contamination fear, after completing his therapy, jasons score on thr Y-BOCS test had dropped severely at stayed low for months, his parents reported an improvement in his symptomms
        
        Strenghts
        
        Weakness