Correct Answer – Option 1 : Exposure and response prevention

Explanation

• OCD is a disorder characterized by recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas or sensations (obsessions) that make the patient feel driven to do something repetitively (compulsions).
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy is the major treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorders.​

Exposure therapy

• Exposure therapy is based up on a behavioral principle called habituation.
• Habituation is the process of diminishing of sensory and behavioral response over time when repeatedly exposed to a particular stimuli.
• It focuses on allowing repeated exposure to a fearful stimuli.

Response prevention

• Exposure therapy is always interconnected with response prevention.
• Also known as ritual prevention.
• Response prevention is based on operant conditioning theory of learning.
• This theory is suggests that when a behavior is no longer rewarded, it will diminish.