Positive affect and imaginal exposure processes in patients with taboo obsessions
In this study, individuals with taboo OCD symptoms repeatedly approached an idiographic obsession through an imaginal exposure. After accounting for comorbid depression, positive affect was positively and significantly associated with perceived efficacy and exposure engagement; however, positive affect was not associated with habituation or learning. Notably, the relationship between positive affect and the perceived effectiveness of, and ability to engage in, a personalized exposure highlights important areas for future research aiming to improve clinical interventions for OCD. To address the study's primary limitation â€...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

A review of tech-based self-help treatment programs for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Publication date: Available online 26 August 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Eric B. Lee, Cherie Hoepfl, Cali Werner, Elizabeth McIngvaleAbstractTechnology-based self-help treatment programs for OCD have the potential to offer low to no cost treatment to those who may not have access to OCD treatment providers, to compliment on-going therapy and to assist individuals in maintaining treatment gains. To date, the quality of these programs is largely unassessed. This review examines the currently available technology-based self-help treatment programs for OCD. Search results from Go...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Perceived decision-making styles among individuals with obsessive-compulsive and hoarding disorders
Publication date: Available online 21 August 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Jedidiah Siev, Keith Lit, Yan LeykinAbstractIndividuals with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and hoarding disorder (HD) struggle with decision-making. One potentially important aspect of decision-making that has yet to be studied in relation to OCD and HD is decision-making style, a trait-like pattern of responding that is relatively stable across a variety of decision-making situations. The aim of the present study was to investigate the extent to which people with OCD and/or HD report specific deci...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: July 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 22Author(s): (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Innovations in CBT treatment for hoarding: Transcending office walls
This article reviews the existing empirical literature on technology-supported interventions for hoarding behaviors. Such interventions include online self-help resources, videoconferencing and webcam-based individual and group treatment, “blended” face-to-face plus therapist assisted online programs, as well as virtual reality. Technology-based interventions may extend access to practitioners with expertise in hoarding, incorporate evidence-based strategies that are available anytime and from anywhere, facilitate more cost-effective services, allow for flexibility in scheduling, harness motivation, support engagement ...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Predictors of treatment outcome and attrition in adults with hoarding disorder
Publication date: Available online 9 August 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Catherine R. Ayers, James O.E. Pittman, Eliza J. Davidson, Mary E. Dozier, Tina L. Mayes, Erin AlmklovAbstractWhile a number of hoarding disorder-specific therapeutic interventions have been developed over recent years, hoarding disorder (HD) remains difficult to treat. The purpose of this investigation is to inform HD treatment efforts by examining factors that influence treatment attrition and treatment response. Secondary data analysis of baseline and post-treatment data from two previously published p...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Publisher's Note
Publication date: Available online 8 August 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Introduction to the special section: Research domain criteria in the obsessive compulsive and related disorders
Publication date: Available online 2 August 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Dean McKayAbstractThe Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is a major initiative of the National Institute of Mental Health that aims to identify empirically based indicators of psychiatric conditions. It is based on a matrix of major domains of function by hierarchically arranged levels of analysis from genes, through neural circuits and up through paradigms of investigation. There are significant implications for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders in the RDoC. This special series of papers aims to el...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Real-world and clinical trial efficacy of selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder measured by survey and meta-analysis
Publication date: Available online 2 August 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Erich W. Miller, David S. Shoup, Eric W. Recktenwald (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

To save or not to save: The use of cognitive bias modification in a high-hoarding sample
Publication date: Available online 31 July 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Jonathan David, Peter A. Baldwin, Jessica R. GrishamAbstractThe cognitive-behavioural model of hoarding posits that maladaptive beliefs play a causal role in saving behaviours. These beliefs may operate as interpretive biases to save in ambiguous situations in which hoarding individuals must decide whether to discard an item. We used a novel interpretative cognitive bias modification paradigm (CBM-I) to modify hoarding-related interpretive biases in a sample of undergraduates with high hoarding symptoms (N...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Prevalence and clinical characteristics of skin picking among adults with skin disease symptoms
Publication date: Available online 30 July 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Laura J. Dixon, ĂŤvar SnorrasonAbstractDespite its relevance, few studies have examined the prevalence and characteristics of skin picking in relation to skin disease. To address limitations in the literature, the current study examined in those with self-reported skin disease symptoms: (1) the prevalence of skin picking; (2) demographic, dermatological, and psychosocial characteristics of individuals with and without skin picking; and (3) associations between skin picking severity and psychosocial symptom...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Facets of experiential avoidance differentially predict engagement in a contamination-based behavioral approach task
Publication date: Available online 15 July 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Sara L. Conley, Sarah R. Lee, Hannah F. Martyn, Kevin D. WuAbstractExperiential Avoidance (EA) is an unwillingness to experience or remain in contact with unpleasant emotions, thoughts, bodily sensations, or other private experiences (Hayes, Wilson, Gifford, Follette, & Strosahl, 1996). Previous research has found a relationship between EA and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD; Twohig, Hayes, & Masuda, 2006a). The current study examined relations among multiple EA facets, contamination concerns, and anxie...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Empirically supported treatments for obsessive-compulsive related disorders in the age of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
Publication date: Available online 15 July 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Ana Rabasco, Miriam Ambrosino, Dean McKayAbstractThe Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) emphasizes the discovery of mechanisms of psychopathology and treatment outcome. In the case of Obsessive-Related Disorders (OCRDs), the available research shows that research exists that describes negative valence variables, specifically neural circuitry, that may be mediators of cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) outcome for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). There is limited research on neural circuitry associated w...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Biogenetic etiologies of OCD: Review and recommendations for clinicians
Publication date: Available online 14 June 2019Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): William SchultzAbstractBiogenetic etiologies of mental disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, are ascendant. This ascendancy manifests in numerous ways, including the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria, which conceptualizes mental disorders as disordered brain circuits. Varied motivations underlie biogenetic etiologies, including philosophic assumptions and desire for improved validity. Yet, these motivations rest on contested arguments and data. These motivations a...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - June 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Psychometric evaluation of the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) in Iranian clinical and non-clinical samples
ConclusionThe Persian version of the CY-BOCS is a valid psychometric indicator for obsessive compulsive disorders with adequate sensitivity and specificity, and high NPV and PPV with an optimum cut-off score of 17 for OCD diagnosis. (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - June 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research