Stephen Ilardi Ph.D. on July 20, 2009
Fortunately, during my grad school training at Duke, instructors and supervisors emphasized the importance of asking, for each form of mental illness: which of the hundreds of possible treatments for this disorder is most strongly supported by the research evidence?For OCD, this is a no-brainer: a form of behavior therapy called exposure and ritual prevention has outperformed other treatments (including meds) in virtually every relevant outcome trial ever published.
Fortunately, during my grad school training at Duke, instructors and supervisors emphasized the importance of asking, for each form of mental illness: which of the hundreds of possible treatments for this disorder is most strongly supported by the research evidence?For OCD, this is a no-brainer: a form of behavior therapy called exposure and ritual prevention has outperformed other treatments (including meds) in virtually every relevant outcome trial ever published.
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