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02.02.2024
Medication Options
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02.02.2024
Different Types of Mental Health Therapies
Check out ADAA's helpful guide to understanding the different therapy options including CBT, DBT, ACT and more...
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02.02.2024
ADAA's Find Your Therapist
ADAA’s Find Your Therapist Directory connects YOU with licensed mental health professionals who are experts in anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD and co-occurring disorders.
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01.10.2024
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources - Professionals
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12.19.2023
Become a Member / Categories & Fees
ADAA is the only multidisciplinary professional organization engaging the world’s leading experts focused on anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adults. Discover member rates and join today. Questions? Email [email protected].
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12.19.2023
ADAA Professional Membership Benefits
ADAA membership offers an extensive list of learning, networking and publication benefits available to you through your ADAA membership.
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12.19.2023
ADAA Conference
Join us in Boston, MA (April 11-14) for ADAA's annual conference and connect with more than 1,300 leading clinicians and researchers from across the United States and around the globe focused on the latest anxiety, depression, and co-occurring disorders treatment and research.
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09.15.2023
Family Accommodations
Obsessive and compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms intensely impact individuals and the entire system in which they live. It can be beyond challenging and painful to watch someone you love struggle with severe anxiety, panic attacks, and engage in behaviors (or thoughts) that do not seem rational.
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08.21.2023
Four Emotional States to Attend to When Treating OCD
Many of the themes common to OCD have a taboo or forbidden nature to them, making asking for help from treatment providers an anxiety-inducing experience. Clinicians can be helpful by bringing voice to this issue, acknowledging and validating that anxiety is a natural part of asking for help.
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08.17.2023
BDD, Surgeons, and Surgery: Considerations and Questions to Ask
Surgery can be lifesaving. Surgery is often needed and can, for many conditions and situations, be a game changer. But more often than not, a surgical procedure for someone with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) will not help. It could potentially relieve the person of their symptoms for a short amount of time but it cannot treat or cure the underlying disorder.
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08.16.2023
Understanding the Difference: Harm-Related Intrusive Thoughts and Wanting to Hurt Someone
While both Harm OCD and desire to harm someone involve thoughts relating to harm, distinct features can help differentiate between the two.
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08.14.2023
Medication for Treatment of OCD: Understanding the Options
Although primary care physicians and other non-specialists in mental health feel comfortable managing less complicated anxiety-related disorders, OCD is a more complex diagnosis and ideally should be managed by a psychiatrist. Before initiating medication, the psychiatrist will first do a thorough assessment to ensure that the diagnosis of OCD is accurate, and to determine the presence of coexisting conditions that may complicate the treatment.