Provides an overview of hoarding disorder, including persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, strong urges to save items, and clutter that interferes with living spaces or functioning. The fact… Read more »
Live Training: Online Consultation Groups
This interactive, web-based training opportunity enables clinicians to improve their skills in treating OCD and related disorders through a series of 90-minute, small-group sessions. Each small group will consist of… Read more »
Handout: Scrupulosity Fact Sheet
Explains scrupulosity as a form of OCD involving excessive religious or moral concerns. Describes common obsessions, including fears of sin, blasphemy, impurity, or going to hell, along with behavioral and… Read more »
Handout: The OCD Cycle
Visually illustrates the cycle through which an intrusive thought, image, feeling, or situation triggers distress; the person responds with a compulsion or avoidance behavior; and temporary relief reinforces the cycle…. Read more »
Handout: Conceptualizing OCD Symptoms
Helps individuals and clinicians map the relationship between OCD triggers, intrusive thoughts or images, emotional responses, compulsions, avoidance, and short- and long-term consequences. By visually organizing the OCD cycle, the… Read more »
Handout: The Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDs) Worksheet
Introduces the Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDs), a simple method for rating the intensity of anxiety or distress associated with OCD triggers. The worksheet can help individuals identify and… Read more »
Handout: Building an Exposure Hierarchy Worksheet
Provides worksheets to help individuals and clinicians create an exposure hierarchy for ERP treatment. Users identify situations, thoughts, or triggers associated with OCD and organize them according to anticipated difficulty… Read more »
Handout: Body Dysmorphic Disorder Fact Sheet
Introduces body dysmorphic disorder as a condition involving intense preoccupation with perceived appearance flaws that are minor or not observable to others. Describes common symptoms including mirror checking, avoidance, camouflage,… Read more »