A Review of the Inference-Based Approach to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

作者：O'Connor Kieron^*; Ecker Willi; Lahoud Monique; Roberts Sarah

来源：Verhaltenstherapie, 2012, 22(1): 47-55.

DOI：10.1159/000333414

• Obsessive compulsive disorder
• Inference-based approach
• Obsessional doubt
• Reasoning processes
• Inferential confusion

A Review of the Inference-Based Approach to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Although cognitive behavioral therapy, often in the form of exposure and response prevention, is the most common treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), individuals with certain subtypes of OCD show no or minimal benefit (e.g., individuals with overvalued ideation or egosyntonic obsessions). Given the mitigated success of treatments based on behavioral and cognitive behavioral models, OCD researchers have turned their attention to more exclusively cognitive theories and treatment models. The inference-based approach to OCD proposes that obsessive cognitions and appraisals stem from initial doubts and inferences. This approach focuses on the faulty reasoning processes underlying the obsessive doubts that generate OCD patients' compulsive behavior. This article presents the current status of the inference-based model and reviews the supporting evidence.

• 出版日期2012