Additonal Resources

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is usually extremely distressing and sometimes incapacitating, interfering with work, family and interpersonal relationships. Traditional psychotherapy is ineffective in treating OCD.

OCD can usually be effectively treated in an outpatient treatment modality. The recommended treatment involves a combination of behavioral therapy (Exposure with Response Prevention) with medication as required. In cases where symptoms are more severe, after failing to improve significantly through traditional outpatient treatment, or simply when intensive therapy is preferred, referral to the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Intensive Outpatient Program is indicated.

The OCD Intensive Outpatient treatment programs provide group, individual and family therapy in a concentrated manner, 3 hours daily, 3 days per week. The average length of treatment at the intensive treatment program is 4 to 6 weeks. Clients work closely with program therapists on behavioral exposures to the feared obsessions. Clients learn to work on their own as they progress with exposures to acquire the ability to work without the direct support of a therapist, to perform homework exposures and follow-up with less intensive outpatient treatment. Intensive treatment programs meet Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, often combined with medication treatment, is the most effective therapy for OCD. The OCD IOP is committed to coordinating care with community therapists while clients are in the program and as they transition back to therapists upon completion of the program.

WESTERN PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE AND CLINC CHILD/ADOLESCENT OCD INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM (412) 488-4186

Please call the clinic directly for more information about this program

Other Related Resources:

Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)

Association For the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT)

Clinical Directory and Referral Service

National Anxiety Foundation

New York Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies

Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation of Western Pennsylvania

PO Box 874

McMurray, PA 15317

(412) 363-6231

(412) END-OCD1

The Mental health Professionals listed in this web site have expressed an interest in treating individuals with OCD. This foundation has not investigated these individuals nor does it have the facilities to evaluate their competence in treating OCD. The list is a compilation of treatment providers who have requested that their names appear on the referral list.

The OC Foundation, Inc. does not recommend or endorse the competence or expertise of anyone listed. The listing of a treatment provider is not an endorsement, but merely a source listing of individuals who have indicated they treat OCD.