Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Hoarding behavior shows _____ prognosis with exposure and response prevention.

Answer: poor

Flashcard 2: Patients showing _____ behaviour have poor prognosis with exposure and response prevention in OCD

Answer: hoarding

Flashcard 3: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a disorder of thought _____, as per the Fish's classification of thought disorders

Answer: possession

Flashcard 4: _____ is used in resistant and chronic OCD cases

Answer: Electroconvulsive therapy

Flashcard 5: Patients with _____ disorder are ego-dystonic

Answer: obsessive-compulsive

Flashcard 6: What is the specific behavioral technique used for the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?

Answer: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

Extra: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold standard behavioral therapy for OCD. It involves exposing the patient to anxiety-provoking thoughts/situations (exposure) while instructing them to refrain from performing their usual compulsive rituals (response prevention). Systematic desensitization is more typically used for phobias.

Flashcard 7: _____ is a form of CBT which has two parts: exposure to obsession-provoking situations, and the reduction or prevention of compulsions or safety behaviors

Answer: Exposure and response prevention

Flashcard 8: First-line treatment for OCD includes _____ + SSRIs (preferred) or clomipramine

Answer: CBT

Flashcard 9: Stereotactic _____ leucotomy and stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy are surgical modalities for treating OCDs

Answer: limbic