- When
- Tuesday, Jul 7, 2026, 9:00 – 9:50 am
- Event interval
- Single day event
- Campus location
- Kincaid Hall (KIN)
- Campus room
- Kincaid 102/108
- Accessibility contact
- swyble@uw.edu
- Event types
- Lectures/Seminars
- Event sponsors
- Department of Psychology
- Description
- Holy Grails, Golden Tickets, and The Search for Truth In the Treatment of Pediatric OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by obsessions and behavioral and/or mental compulsions, and is associated with a cascading cycle of psychopathology, psychiatric comorbidity, and functional impairment if left untreated or undertreated. Fortunately, efficacious treatments have been developed to mitigate OCD’s pernicious effects, most notably cognitive-behavioral approaches with or without concomitant pharmacotherapy with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs). This lecture will focus first on what is already known about these treatments’ effects, then shift to identifying key aspects of these interventions that remain to be discovered, such as which patients require which forms of treatment or treatment combinations? The bulk of the lecture will focus on how best to make empirically informed clinical decisions about treatment and treatment sequencing in OCD given the literature on treatments’ efficacy and effectiveness, as well as in light of studies that have identified robust moderators and predictors of outcome. Ample time will be reserved to respond to audience questions and comments. - Map
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