Multitreatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Checking in a Geriatric Patient
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by SAGE Publications in Behavior Modification
- Vol. 8 (3), 379-390
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455840083005
Abstract
Behavioral treatment of an elderly woman with an obsessive-complusive disoder is discussed in an attempt to illustrate: (1) the value of verbal exposure to feared stimuli in the treatment of fears that are difficult to elicit reliably in vivo, and (2) the effectiveness of behavioral techniques with geriatric patients.Keywords
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