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Behavioral Therapy: Exposure And Response Prevention

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Exposure and response prevention therapy is a behavioral therapy. Exposure involves exposing patients to situations that trigger their obsessions and compulsions. Response prevention involves not allowing the patients to perform the rituals they would typically use to reduce anxiety. The combination of these two strategies leads to extinction of the fear response. Behavioral therapy begins with an assessment of the patient’s obsessional thoughts and impulses and the stimuli that trigger them. The patient is also asked to consider the negative consequences they imagine will occur if they confront the feared stimuli and do not perform their compulsive actions. Exposure starts with only moderately distressing stimuli and only when the patient
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