Group versus individual cognitive treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Changes in non-OCD symptoms and cognitions at post-treatment and one-year follow-up

Changes in intolerance of uncertainty during cognitive behavior group therapy for social phobia

“…This hypothesis was fully supported; the effect sizes for reductions in IU, social anxiety symptoms, and depression symptoms were in the moderate to large range. These results are consistent with previous research supporting the effectiveness of CBGT for social phobia (McEvoy, 2007), as well as findings which demonstrate that IU reduces during cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety disorders such as GAD and OCD (Belloch et al, 2011;Goldman et al, 2007;Overton & Menzies, 2005). Our treatment outcomes also appear consistent with those reported in Hewitt et al's (2009) single-case study that found that an IU-based CBT intervention led to clinically significant reductions in IU and social phobia symptoms.…”

“…If IU is associated with the maintenance of anxiety disorders, IU should reduce following treatment. Reductions in IU have been reported during treatment for GAD and OCD with studies typically finding that reductions in IU were significantly correlated with improvements in core symptoms and occurred prior to, or concurrent with, major symptom improvement (Belloch et al, 2011;Goldman, Dugas, Sexton, & Gervais, 2007;Overton & Menzies, 2005). One study to date has explored IU within the context of social phobia treatment.…”

One-on-One Mindfulness Meditation Trainings in a Research Setting

“…Another study looking at group versus individual therapy for workplace depression found no difference between groups at a one-year follow-up (Sandahl et al, 2011). Group versus individual cognitive treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder found similar effects for depression and worry, and the individual treatment was more effective in decreasing scores on dysfunction beliefs and in decreasing the use of suppression as a thought control strategy (Belloch et al, 2011). A meta-analysis of group versus individual exercise interventions for women with breast cancer found no difference between the two intervention types on quality of life (Floyd & Moyer, 2009).…”

Microstructural Abnormality in Left Nucleus Accumbens Predicts Dysfunctional Beliefs in Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

“…Further regression analysis showed that importance of thoughts and responsibility were related to drug-resistance in OCD. Importance of thoughts has been reported to be strongly correlated with the OCD severity, and a moderate relationship was reported between other biased beliefs and OCD severity [26], which means that this dysfunctional belief is more specific in OCD prediction. Recently, the importance of thoughts has been found to be a unique predictor [27] of poor cognitive therapeutic efficacy [26] and resistance to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [11].…”

“…Importance of thoughts has been reported to be strongly correlated with the OCD severity, and a moderate relationship was reported between other biased beliefs and OCD severity [26], which means that this dysfunctional belief is more specific in OCD prediction. Recently, the importance of thoughts has been found to be a unique predictor [27] of poor cognitive therapeutic efficacy [26] and resistance to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [11]. Inflated responsibility is proposed to be a main feature of cognitive-behavioral models of OCD [28] and may specifically mediate the attitudes of family members of OCD patients, leading to the development of this illness [29] and less reduction in overall OCD symptom after cognitive behavioral therapy [30].…”