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 [...]