Exposure And Response Prevention (ERP) For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This comprehensive workbook helps clients understand obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), prepare for exposure and response prevention (ERP), complete graded exposure exercises, troubleshoot difficulties, and maintain progress over time.
Exposure And Response Prevention (ERP) For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
The Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) workbook is written for people who struggle with OCD. It provides comprehensive information about OCD – including what it is and how it is maintained – and detailed guidance for how you can use ERP to address it.
Overview
Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is a highly effective treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). It involves gradually facing the thoughts, images, urges, situations, or sensations that trigger obsessions while resisting the compulsions and avoidance behaviors that usually follow.
This workbook provides a structured, practical guide to understanding OCD and applying ERP. It begins with psychoeducation about obsessions, compulsions, avoidance, and the vicious cycle that maintains OCD. Clients then learn how ERP interrupts this cycle, why repeated exposure creates new learning, and how to plan and complete exposure exercises in a gradual and manageable way.
The workbook includes motivation and goal-setting exercises, an OCD vicious cycle formulation, an OCD ladder, single- and multiple-exposure ERP records, troubleshooting guidance, relapse-prevention material, and worked examples covering different OCD presentations.
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