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Exposure with response prevention for Islamic religious OCD

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) applied to Islamic religious OCD requires a nuanced understanding of functional analysis while taking into account the specificities of faith and Islamic practices. This combination of evidence-based psychotherapy and respect for the patient's spirituality allows for guiding the patient towards a more peaceful religious practice, guided by their values rather than by compulsive avoidance.
AnxietyObsessive compulsive disorder
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Pre-exposure form

Using a pre-exposure sheet like the one presented here, the patient prepares their targeted and specific exposure.
Anxiety

Pierre Lamy

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): clinical guidelines for CBT practice

Within CBT, PTSD is conceptualized as the result of insufficiently processed traumatic memories, maintained by avoidance and unrevised dysfunctional beliefs. The main therapeutic principles in CBT are therefore prolonged exposure, cognitive therapy, and other trauma-focused CBT principles.
AnxietyPost-traumatic stress

Pierre Lamy

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Optimizing fear extinction through exposure based on inhibitory learning

Research has shown that exposure therapy works through the principles of inhibitory learning. These principles highlights how to overcome fear by learning something new, rather then by focusing on the anxiety in itself.
General CBTAnxiety

Pierre Lamy

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Subjective units of distress scale

The Subjective units of distress-scale (SUD-scale, also called "the anxiety scale") is a very useful and straightforward clinical technique in exposure therapy for anxiety. It’s essential element is asking the patient to represent his level of anxiety on a scale (usually from 0 to 100).
Anxiety

Jan Bergström

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Safety behaviors

Safety behaviors are very common among those who suffer from anxiety disorders: The patient does something to relieve the anxiety, which may feel like it “works” in the short run, but actually consolidates the problem in the long run.
AnxietyGeneral CBT

Jan Bergström

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Interoceptive exposure

Interoceptive exposure is a specific exposure technique, used primarily in CBT for panic disorder. Its focus is on exposing the patient for bodily symptoms (such as heart palpitations or shortness of breath).
Anxiety

Jan Bergström

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In-vivo exposure

Exposure in-vivo is the primary and most broadly used form of exposure. Through gradual and repeated exposure, the patient learns to overcome her fear and to do things in real life that she previously couldn’t do because of her anxiety.
Anxiety

Jan Bergström

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Imaginal exposure

Imaginal exposure is a specific exposure technique, used primary when exposure in-vivo is not feasible. It follows the same basic principles of exposure as when it is used in-vivo, but instead of seeking out the phobic stimulus in the real world the focus of exposure is a phobic mental image or memory.
Anxiety

Jan Bergström

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Homework

Homework is at the heart of CBT, because it is the way of making the change process in therapy vividly present in the patient’s everyday life, and not only during the therapy sessions. The goal of every CBT is to help the patient experience something new in his or her life, and homework is essential to making that happen.
General CBT

Jan Bergström

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Goal formulation

Helping the patient to identify goals for therapy is essential to every cognitive behavioral therapy. All goal formulation should be based in what the patient wants to change in his or her life, in terms of what he or she would like to be able to _do_ differently.
General CBT

Jan Bergström

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Exposure and response prevention for OCD

Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is the most effective psychological treatment for OCD. It shares the same basic principles as other forms of exposure therapy, including the importance of response prevention and re-exposure.
Obsessive compulsive disorder

Jan Bergström

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Exposure hierarchy

An exposure hierarchy is a clinical tool used in exposure therapy for planning exposure exercises. Its goal is to help create a “road map” for the therapy, helping the therapist and the patient see where to start and collaboratively establishing the outline and the goals of the therapy.
General CBTAnxietyObsessive compulsive disorder

Jan Bergström

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Functional analysis

Functional analysis constitutes both a theoretical foundation and a practical clinical tool within CBT. It guides the therapist through the assessment phase and provides the blueprint for the therapy, outlining the patient’s way to change.
General CBT

Jan Bergström

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AnxietyDepression
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Exposure

Exposure is arguably the most well-known therapeutic intervention in CBT, used in some shape or form since the 1950s, helping people with anxiety disorders. Exposure can be used as a part of a broader CBT or constitute a whole psychotherapy in its own right (“exposure therapy”).
Anxiety

Jan Bergström

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Behavioral Activation

Behavioral activation was developed as a specific CBT for depression. Its principles can be used in every cognitive behavior therapy where low mood plays a role. The core principle of behavioral activation is to help the patient more actively engage with life again.
Depression

Jan Bergström

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