At some point, every person has sneezed. In these brief moments of air expulsion, people almost become slaves to their brain’s commands, losing control of their body in that instant. Despite vigorous attempts to refuse the order, the brain’s hardwired response to minor stimuli has been shown to snottily win out time and time again, whether a person is sitting on the bus, giving a presentation at school or sitting in a silent library. For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), these suddenly triggered actions come in the form of anxiety-driven compulsions, which occur so frequently that these seemingly uncontrollable actions can be a detriment to a person’s quality of life and health. Hence, scientists and doctors have experimented
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is a drug-free psychological treatment that utilizes a series of mental health counseling sessions run by a therapist. In these sessions, mental health counselors use different psychotherapeutic tactics and tools to help patients cope with and reduce their OCD symptoms. In the research journal article titled “Clinical Considerations When Tailoring Cognitive Behavioral Treatment For Young Children With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” by the Bradley/Hasbro Research Center, researchers used a family-based program to help reduce the OCD symptoms of children, which consisted of, “psychoeducation about OCD in young children, parent education, and child tools adapted to allow young children to participate in exposure with response prevention” (Choate-Summers 396). In this cognitive behavioral therapy program, researchers treated adolescents with OCD by making the parents more knowledgeable and better equipped to handle OCD behaviors …show more content…
Due to the successful cases for both treatments, it is typically considered that mixing cognitive behavioral therapy with medications is the best option because it covers the most bases. According to “Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Exposure and Ritual Prevention, Clomipramine, and Their Combination in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,” an article posted in The American Journal of Psychiatry, “Treated and completer response rates were, respectively, 62% and 86% for exposure and ritual prevention, 42% and 48% for clomipramine, 70% and 79% for exposure and ritual prevention plus clomipramine, and 8% and 10% for placebo” (Foa 151). From this data, one can see that there is little to no difference in efficacy between cognitive behavioral therapy, such as exposure and ritual prevention, alone and the combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and medicinal treatment, while the tricyclic antidepressant, clomipramine, is the least effective as a treatment alone. The effectiveness of different non-drug and drug treatments for OCD can also be seen in the aforementioned 1997 movie, As Good as It
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a drug-free psychological treatment that utilizes a series of mental health counseling sessions run by a therapist. In these sessions, mental health counselors use different psychotherapeutic tactics and tools to help patients cope with and reduce their OCD symptoms. In the research journal article titled “Clinical Considerations When Tailoring Cognitive Behavioral Treatment For Young Children With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” by the Bradley/Hasbro Research Center, researchers used a family-based program to help reduce the OCD symptoms of children, which consisted of, “psychoeducation about OCD in young children, parent education, and child tools adapted to allow young children to participate in exposure with response prevention” (Choate-Summers 396). In this cognitive behavioral therapy program, researchers treated adolescents with OCD by making the parents more knowledgeable and better equipped to handle OCD behaviors …show more content…
Due to the successful cases for both treatments, it is typically considered that mixing cognitive behavioral therapy with medications is the best option because it covers the most bases. According to “Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Exposure and Ritual Prevention, Clomipramine, and Their Combination in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,” an article posted in The American Journal of Psychiatry, “Treated and completer response rates were, respectively, 62% and 86% for exposure and ritual prevention, 42% and 48% for clomipramine, 70% and 79% for exposure and ritual prevention plus clomipramine, and 8% and 10% for placebo” (Foa 151). From this data, one can see that there is little to no difference in efficacy between cognitive behavioral therapy, such as exposure and ritual prevention, alone and the combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and medicinal treatment, while the tricyclic antidepressant, clomipramine, is the least effective as a treatment alone. The effectiveness of different non-drug and drug treatments for OCD can also be seen in the aforementioned 1997 movie, As Good as It