Strategies for Improving Long-Term Outcomes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Insights From Learning Theory

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-31

  Abramowitz, Jonathan S ^a   Arch, Joanna J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

CBT; Exposure; Learning theory; OCD; Relapse

Indexed keywords

FLUVOXAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASIC RESEARCH; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPOSURE AND RESPONSE PREVENTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMAGINAL EXPOSURE THERAPY; INHIBITORY LEARNING; LEARNING; LEARNING THEORY; LINGUISTIC PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REASSURANCE; RELAPSE; RITUAL; SITUATIONAL THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84891829810     PISSN: 10777229     EISSN: 1878187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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