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December 2013

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Superior to Antipsychotics for OCD

By |December 13th, 2013|Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment|

A practice I’m seeing more often that concerns me is the addition of antipsychotic medications on top of antidepressants when the antidepressants aren’t working. If someone isn’t showing improvement on an antidepressant alone, a prescriber may add an antipsychotic medication—the [...]

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June 2012

How Do You Use Exposure in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?

By |June 5th, 2012|Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment|

In June, Utah State professor Mike Twohig is coming to Portland to conduct a daylong workshop on using exposure in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). [As a side note, I did my first ACT training with Mike literally one week before [...]

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