Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psychological treatments of
OCD-Exposure, response prevention
(ERP)
- Aims to provide opportunities for
re-conditioning.
- classical conditioning
- operant
conditioning
- Exposure
- Patient is repeatedly presented with the
feared stimulus until anxiety subsides
(habituation)
- May be in a similar manner
to systematic
desensitisation
- If pace is too slow,
the patient may lose
motivation
- Anxieties persist because of negative
reinforcement. To break the
anxiety-producing stimulus, reinforcing
must occur and the patient must learnt
through relaxation to reduce anxiety.
- Response prevention
- Patient is prohibited from engaging in the usual
compulsive response
- This allows the patient to recognise
that anxiety can be reduced without
the compulsive ritual.
- For example, a woman that is obsessed
with cleanliness might be given a list of
therapeutic rules she must accept, such
as not cleaning her house for a week
- If a patient can control their
behaviour, then they learn that
those obsessions that previously
created anxiety no longer produce
this response.