Clinical Case of OCD: Willingness
Key Points
- The concepts covered in this interaction include willingness, control as the problem, and behavioral commitments.
- There are phrases that hint at values and defusion.
- Be flexible about the order of addressing these topics.
- The concepts can be used flexibly in the session.
- The interaction concludes with setting home practice goals.
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Transcript
In this video, we will go through these concepts with a mock client.
This is a 22-year-old male who has a fear of yelling blasphemous phrases while sitting in church. He has avoided attending church for the past year due to these fears. When he has attended church, he attempts to block the phrases and fears by holding other phrases in his mind, praying, closing his eyes, sitting in the back, and pinching his legs.
This is an example of a willingness practice and setting behavioral commitments with him. This is done in a more fluid manner and is done in a different order than previously discussed. And this is to show you how you can do more of a dance with these processes to make them match where the client is at.