Fundamentals of Mental Health

Fundamentals of Mental Health

The effect of combination therapy of exposure with prevalent response and children learning behavior on obsessive compulsive symptoms in children with comorbidity of oppositional deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Hojjatollah Mehdi 1
Salar Faramarzi 2
1 Graduate of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Iran
2 Assistant professor, Department of psychology of children with special needs, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
10.22038/jfmh.2016.7895
Abstract
Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to study the effect of combination therapy of exposure with prevalent response and children learning behavior on obsessive compulsive symptoms in 4-8 year of children with comorbidity of oppositional deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Materials and Methods: In this research, among 4-8 year of children of Khansar city, 3 children, a 7.5 year old girl, and 2 boys of 6 and 7 years of that had the symptoms of comorbidity of oppositional deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder and according to DSM-5, Yale Brown obsessive compulsive scale and SNAP-IV test were selected by convenience sampling method and were studied by using these questionnaires. To analyze the data, descriptive data like mean, median, determination of PND percent (non-overlapping data) and POD percent (overlapping data) were used.
Results:With the study of the obtained mean and median and comparing them in 3 situations of baseline, intervention and follow up and the calculation of PND (80%) and POD (20%) in intervention and follow up situations, it was found that the combination therapy of exposure with prevalent response and parent learning behavior have had an effect on the reduction of obsessive compulsive symptoms in all 3 studied children with comorbidity of oppositional deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Conclusion: Thus, it can be concluded that the combination therapy of exposure with prevalent response and parent learning behavior affects the reduction of obsessive compulsive symptoms in 4-8 year of children with comorbidity of oppositional deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. Thus, this kind of therapy can be suggested to psychologists, counselors and other therapists.
Keywords
Learning behavior
Obsessive compulsive symptoms
Oppositional deficit disorder
parents
Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 18, Special Issue
November and December 2016
Pages 467-474