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The Group Treatment of Obsessive—Compulsive Ritualisers: Behavioural Management of Identified Patterns of Relapse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Colin A. Espie
Colin A. Espie
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Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow
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Five obsessive—compulsives who had previously benefited from individual behaviour therapy, but had subsequently relapsed, were included in 10-week group therapy programme designed to re-establish this behavioural approach with particular emphasis upon those factors which appeared to have been related to relapse.

Considerable reductions in ratings of ritualistic behaviour and obsessional thinking were achieved and maintained at one year follow-up, with associated generalization to other areas of personal functioning. Possible prognostic variables were systematically examined. The results are discussed with reference to previous research studies.

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Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 21 - 33
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1986

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