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 »
Handout: Trichotillomania Fact Sheet
Explains trichotillomania, or hair-pulling disorder, as recurrent hair pulling that can cause noticeable hair loss, distress, and functional impairment. It describes urges and tension surrounding pulling, common pulling locations and… 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: 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 »
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: 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: 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 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 »