Professor Michael Kyrios

时间： 2015-11-02 12:30 - 14:30

地点： Room 1113, Wang Kezhen Building

Cognitive-behavioural conceptualizations of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) have led to effective psychological treatments. Despite the effectiveness of cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT), outcomes vary with recovery rates of only around 40% - 50%. Furthermore, the dissemination of CBT is hampered by the paucity of specialist clinicians, geographic remoteness from services and consumer reticence to present for treatment. In response, researchers have sought to identify factors predictive of poorer outcomes in order to develop novel treatments based on new theoretical approaches and to use digital technologies to disseminate treatments.

This talk outlines findings from our group’s OCD treatment evaluations, including a manualised CBT manual and an online therapist-assisted program. Furthermore, following data that supports the importance of self constructs in predicting treatment outcomes in OCD, the talk overviews research focusing on the association between OCD phenomena and self-construals. A conceptual model of OCD incorporating cognitive and self-factors is presented, and recommendations made regarding future developments in the treatment of OCD.

2015-11-02

2015-11-02