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J Psychother Pract Res 7:272-280, October 1998
© 1998 American Psychiatric Press, Inc.

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A Time-Limited Behavioral Group for Treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder

Barbara L. Van Noppen, M.S.W., Michele T. Pato, M.D., Richard Marsland, R.N. and Steven A. Rasmussen, M.D.

Received December 12, 1996; revised March 9, 1998; accepted March 10, 1998. From the Butler Hospital and the Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Providence, Rhode Island, and Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, New York. Address correspondence to Dr. Pato, State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Psychiatry, 462 Grider Street, Room 1168, Buffalo, NY 14215.

In vivo exposure with response prevention is an effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) either alone or combined with pharmacotherapy. Widespread application of this technique has been limited by lack of trained therapists and the expense of intensive individual behavioral therapy. This report describes a time-limited 10-session behavioral therapy group for OCD whose key elements are exposure, response prevention, therapist and participant modeling, and cognitive restructuring. In a naturalistic open trial of 90 patients meeting DSM-III-R criteria for OCD who completed the 10-session group, self-administered Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale scores (mean ± SD) were 21.8 ± 5.6 at baseline and 16.6 ± 6.4 after the 10-week treatment, a significant decrease. A descriptive analysis of the therapeutic elements of the group and its advantages over individual behavioral treatment are presented. (The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 1998; 7:272–280)




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