ERP

7 12, 2025

Dead Dodos and Better Outcomes: Why Different People Need Different Treatments

By |2025-12-15T19:11:49+00:00December 7th, 2025|Bias, ERP, Mechanism of Change, Research, Treatment matching, Treatment outcome, Treatment Trials|Comments Off on Dead Dodos and Better Outcomes: Why Different People Need Different Treatments

For decades, exposure and response prevention (ERP) has been described as the “gold standard” for OCD. Yet the field of psychotherapy has a long history of declaring winners too early. Budd and Hughes (2009) reminded the field that psychotherapy research faces an inherent difficulty: treatments are rarely isolated enough to determine whether one approach [...]

9 11, 2025

Is I-CBT Just Exposure by Another Name? Why It’s Not, and Why That Matters

By |2025-12-15T19:04:49+00:00November 9th, 2025|ERP, Exposure, Reality Sensing|1 Comment

Every so often, a question appears that seems straightforward but reveals a deeper misunderstanding: “If Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) helps people face situations they’ve been avoiding, isn’t that just exposure with a different name?” The exposure therapy in question is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the long-standing behavioral standard for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder [...]

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