keeptrying Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Has anyone tried Comprehensive Behavior Integration Therapy - CBIT? I am looking into this for my dd11. No other treatments or methods have worked for us. I have been reading about this and it has some medical studies to back it. I would be interested if anyone has any information on this. Only a few have taken the training in Northern California and won't even be available for sessions for a few months. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomWithOCDSon Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Has anyone tried Comprehensive Behavior Integration Therapy - CBIT? I am looking into this for my dd11. No other treatments or methods have worked for us. I have been reading about this and it has some medical studies to back it. I would be interested if anyone has any information on this. Only a few have taken the training in Northern California and won't even be available for sessions for a few months. Thanks. ?? ?? Sorry I don't have anything to add . . . just questions of my own. I tried looking this up on line, and I'm not coming up with anything clear. What sets this therapy apart from Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)? What are the primary precepts of CBIT? Do you have a link to an explanation or paper you could post? I'm interested/curious. We have done CBT, a more focused component of CBT known as ERP (exposure response prevention) therapy, and now we're mixing ERP with ACT - Acceptance Commitment Therapy. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandasphilly Posted November 1, 2012 Report Share Posted November 1, 2012 MomwithOcdsons What is ACT and how does it further benefit CBT /erp? We currently do the latter & I haven't heard of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomWithOCDSon Posted November 1, 2012 Report Share Posted November 1, 2012 MomwithOcdsons What is ACT and how does it further benefit CBT /erp? We currently do the latter & I haven't heard of it Basically, ACT is another branch of Cognitive Behavior Therapy that basically coaches you to accept the thoughts/worries you have without placing value judgements on them, rather committing yourself to moving forward with your original intention and necessary/appropriate actions, despite the "elephant in the room" that is what you're worrying about. In the end, the result is supposed to be not all that different from ERP in terms of, over time, "shrinking" that elephant-sized anxiety down to a more manageable, mouse-size. But instead of purposeful exposure to that which triggers you, it's a method of "accepting" the trigger when it comes upon you in your everyday life and, instead of freaking out about it or immediately assigning it a negative value, allowing it to "sit" in your thought space with you, accepting it for what it is . . . just another thought you had, and not one that should take precedence or crowd out all the other (potentially more constructive and productive) thoughts, and most of all, not one that you must act on. Our therapist decided to try combining this therapy with ERP for my DS because DS is very intellectual and tends to work hard at justifying his OCD and arguing on its behalf, rather than seeing it as a problem in all instances. I must say, it has seemed to help, and it makes my DS feel more like a participant in the process. Sometimes with ERP he's felt like some sort of "lab rat," forced to endure these exposures that he sees as contrived by someone outside himself and imposed upon him by people who don't understand what he's going through. The IOCDF has begun hosting some sessions on ACT at its annual conference, and here's a book that's pretty good on the topic. There might be more resources on the IOCDF web site, as well. ACT Book - Amazon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeptrying Posted November 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 My apologies - It is Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics. I wrote it wrong! Look up Sabine Wilhelm and CBIT and you find studies done on it. I have been communicating with one person who says it has been helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomWithOCDSon Posted November 2, 2012 Report Share Posted November 2, 2012 My apologies - It is Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics. I wrote it wrong! Look up Sabine Wilhelm and CBIT and you find studies done on it. I have been communicating with one person who says it has been helpful. Oh, okay. That sort of explains it. Sorry, we don't really have much experience with tics . . . mostly OCD behaviors on our end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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