Enhancing Clinical Practice with Recent Advancements in the Treatment of OCD

Enhancing Clinical Practice with Recent Advancements in the Treatment of OCD

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Question 1 of 15

1. Question
1. The OCD cycle starts with:
- a. A belief
- b. An urge
- c. An intrusive thought
- d. A ritual
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2. Exposure and Response Prevention involves
- a. Flooding the clients with anxiety-provoking stimuli
- b. Relaxation and systematic desensitization
- c. Restructuring intrusive thinking
- d. Approaching obsessions and associated distress
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3. Habituation is
- a. Freeing
- b. Passive
- c. Goal-directed
- d. Treatable
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Question 4 of 15

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4. Within the inhibitory learning model framework, combining fear cues
- a. Maximizes exposure effectiveness
- b. Violates norms
- c. Prevents use of hierarchies
- d. Is not recommended
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Question 5 of 15

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5. The cognitive component of efficacious CBT for OCD includes
- a. Psychoeducation
- b. Logical reasoning
- c. Behavioral experiments
- d. Value identification
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Question 6 of 15

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6. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) treats thoughts
- a. With mindfulness and relaxation
- b. As thoughts
- c. With suppression techniques
- d. As beliefs to alter
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Question 7 of 15

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7. Which of these is not a common faulty belief or schema observed in individuals with OCD ?
- a. Overestimation of costs
- b. Overestimation of danger
- c. Intolerance of uncertainty
- d. Intolerance of differences
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Question 8 of 15

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8. Which is a potential disadvantage of planning exposures on a hierarchy ?
- a. Planning too many exposures
- b. Reinforcing a client’s low confidence in handling distress
- c. Affirming the client’s capacity to handle distress
- d. Emphasizing intentionality vs. spontaneity
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Question 9 of 15

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9. Accommodation refers to
- a. Doing something for someone that you wouldn’t do if not for their anxiety/OCD
- b. Helping an OCD sufferer in treatment
- c. Meeting someone where they are
- d. Treating comorbid diagnoses
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Question 10 of 15

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10. A therapist may accommodate a client’s OCD by
- a. Acknowledging uncertainty
- b. Planning homework
- c. Assessing OCD severity
- d. Providing reassurance
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Question 11 of 15

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11. What technique may be most helpful to identify and target a client’s core fear ?
- a. Stick with the original plan at all costs
- b. Talk through a worst case scenario
- c. Focus on compulsive urges
- d. Delay ERP until the core fear is well-understood
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12. Which avoidances are helpful during ERP ?
- a. Avoidance of the core fear
- b. Directing attention to other stimuli
- c. Avoidance of uncertainty
- d. None
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13. Which of these is not a mental compulsion (ritual) ?
- a. Reassuring
- b. Reviewing
- c. Noticing doubt
- d. Neutralizing anxiety
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Question 14 of 15

14. Question
14. Planning exposures as consistent with ACT would include
- a. Value identification
- b. A hierarchy based on expected distress
- c. Cognitive restructuring
- d. Meditation training
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Question 15 of 15

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15. Thought suppression
- a. Is a possibly efficacious method for treating OCD
- b. Does not work
- c. Works well for OCD with comorbid depression
- d. Is undervalued in Western society
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