Exposure and response prevention (ERP) has been the gold standard treatment for sufferers of OCD for many years. Despite using ERP, implementing acceptance principles, and targeting specific common content areas, some patients are unable to achieve satisfactory remission rates.
During this presentation, Elna Yadin, PhD, will highlight some of the recurring pitfalls encountered in treatment (e.g., not addressing underlying core fears; over-focusing on the obsessional content) and will offer suggested remedies that should help both clinicians and patients improve the delivery, implementation, and effectiveness of ERP—thus reducing lifetime relapse rates. Attendees will gain the information and tools to flexibly tailor ERP to the needs and learning style and pace of individual OCD sufferers without abandoning its guiding principles and evidence basis.