Published: January 20, 2012
This study demonstrates the maintenance of efficacy of cognitive behavioral group therapy and sertraline for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) after 5 years of follow-up. This was due to the fact that a portion of the patients from both initial groups sought continuation of the original treatment or made a natural ‘crossover’. As OCD is a chronic disorder, probably the continuation of any one of the treatment strategies is mainly responsible for the maintenance of outcomes in the long run.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRI) are the first-choice treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the reduction in severity of OCD symptoms obtained with 12-weekly sessions of CBGT (cognitive behavioral group therapy) or with sertraline (100 mg/day) during the same period, in a randomized clinical trial, would be sustained over a 5-year period, as well as to compare the differences between the 2 treatments in the long term. [continue reading…]
Published: October 6, 2010
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his study demonstrates that supplemental brief dynamic therapy in the treatment of patients with obsessive compulsive-disorder with concurrent major depressive disorder (who are receiving effective medication) has no significant clinical effect on both obsessive and depressive symptoms.
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Published: September 24, 2009
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It might be obvious to many, and reading this particular press release my first reaction was …OK… it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that adolescent depression and anxiety disorders are two distinct psychiatric disorders and are classified thus in the revised fourth edition of the DSM-IV. However it has been suggested that these two disorders be given a join classification in the DSM-V. Dr. William W. Hale III(a researcher of the Langeveld Institute for the Study of Education and Development in Childhood and Adolescence at Utrecht University) and his colleagues completed a five-year study which concluded that while adolescent anxiety and depression were strongly related to one another, adolescent depression and anxiety disorder symptoms are in fact best classified as two distinct disorders.As such Hale argues that the classification of adolescent depression and anxiety disorders be preserved in the DSM-V
This publication will appear in the October issue of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and can be found online at : http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgibin/fulltext/122473904/PDFSTART
Published: September 23, 2009
The New York Times features another excellent Patient Voices. This time six men and women talk aboutObsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Nagging doubts, compulsions to count or check things, concerns of contamination, obsessive hoarding: the symptoms of O.C.D. are numerous and varied. What is it like to live this way? How does one maintain a normal life? Six men and women speak about their battles with this disorder. link to this interactive feature
Source: New York Times
