Recognizing an urgent need for increased access to evidenced-based psychological
treatments, public health authorities have recently allocated over $2 billion to better …

Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive fear and subsequent avoidance, typically
in response to a specified object or situation and in the absence of true danger. Anxiety …

Over the 20 years since the criteria for empirically supported treatments (ESTs) were
published, standards for synthesizing evidence have evolved and more systematic …

This article provides a critical review of the assumptions and findings of studies used to
establish psychotherapies as empirically supported. The attempt to identify empirically …

To date, few studies have been published on the dose-response relationship, but there is
general consensus that between 13 and 18 sessions of therapy are required for 50% of …

Objective: Effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exist, but additional
treatment options are needed. The effectiveness of 8 sessions of acceptance and …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to test the relative and combined efficacy of
clomipramine and exposure and ritual prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a severe and disabling clinical condition that usually
arises in late adolescence or early adulthood and, if left untreated, has a chronic course …

Background Individuals with questions about their health often turn to the Internet for
information about their symptoms, but the degree to which health anxiety is related to online …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by distressing thoughts and
repetitive behaviors that are interfering, time-consuming, and difficult to control. Although …