Exposures
A strategy used primarily outside of ERP treatment to enhance one’s ability to resist rituals. One does another activity (for example, playing a board game, watching TV, taking a walk, etc.) while triggered in order to cope with anxiety without ritualizing.
Distraction Techniques
where someone acquires an excessive number of items and stores them in a chaotic manner, usually resulting in unmanageable amounts of clutter. The items can be of little or no monetary value.
Hoarding disorder
This treatment is conducted with a master's level therapist and involves using exposures and learning how to to give in to compulsive urges
ERP
Stress or trauma can increase your risk for OCD?
True or False
True
When others (family, coworkers, friends,
etc.) help a person with OCD to do their rituals
Accomodation
A list of situations or triggers that are ranked in order from easier tasks to more difficult tasks which can be used to organize ERP treatment.
Hierarchy
Restricted food intake that isn't caused by negative self image or desire to reduce body weight.
ARFID
This level of care involves treatment that consists of going into an office and working between 9-15 hours per week with therapists.
IOP
When a person with OCD asks others questions repetitively to reduce his/her anxiety (for example, “Do you think this food is spoiled?” or “Do you think I will get sick?”).
Reassurance Seeking
How many years does it take someone with OCD to be diagnosed after initial symptoms occur?
A. 20 years
B. 3 years
C. 11 years
D. 8 years
C. 11 years
Any behavior that is done with the intention of avoiding a trigger in order to not feel anxiety.
Avoidance Behavior
A developmental disorder that affects communication and behavior, with a spectrum (range or continuum) of symptom types and severities.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
This is the first class or type medication often given to those with OCD.
SSRIs or antidepressnats
This can be an external event or object or an internal thought that sets off an obsession
Trigger
The first line treatment for OCD. ERP involves having a person with OCD purposefully trigger an obsession through an “exposure”
activity, and then resist the urge to engage in rituals (“response prevention”). This causes an initial burst of anxiety, but gradually, there is a natural decrease in that anxiety, called habituation. ERP is initially done with a behavioral coach/therapist, who assists the person with OCD to resist rituals. Eventually the coaching is phased out, as the person with OCD becomes more able to resist rituals without help.
ERP
A set of skills, both cognitive (involving a person’s thoughts) and behavioral (involving a person’s actions), aimed at keeping individual from slipping back (i.e., relapsing) into the use of compulsive behaviors.
Relapse Prevention
Phobia involving a disproportionate vomiting
Emetophibia
This level of care involves living somewhere that allows you get treatment for your OCD with therapists and doctors.
Residential
Another word for compulsive behavior, which can be
a behavior that others can see, or a hidden or unseen mental behavior. Many mental health professionals will identify anything done on the part of the individual with the intention of reducing one’s anxiety as a ritual.
Ritual
Purposefully directing one’s attention and focus on the present moment (instead of thinking about the past or future).
Mindfulness
ystem that individuals with OCD may be asked to use to rate their anxiety from low to high (for example, having 1 SUD could equal low anxiety, and 10 SUDs is high anxiety). Questions about SUDs are used during ERP exercises to help individuals in treatment become more aware of how and when their anxiety increases and decreases.
Subjective units of distress
a condition in which one or more common sounds (such as the ticking of a clock, the hum of a fluorescent light, or the chewing or breathing of another person) cause an atypical emotional response (such as disgust, distress, panic, or anger) in the affected person hearing the sound
misophonia
This type of therapy helps increase acceptance of negative emotions and learning appropriate responses to those emotions.
ACT
OCD is most commonly diagnosed by what age?
A. 25
B. 19
C. 13
D. 33
A diagnostic tool that includes a symptom checklist of OCD obsessions and compulsions and a rating scale to measure severity. Usually, people who score over 16 also meet the DSM-5 criteria for OCD.
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)