Psychopathology - Biological Treatment for OCD AO3

Question 1

What are the strengths of the Biological Treatment for OCD?

Answer 1

• Soomro found from a meta anaylsis of 17 studies of SSRI and placebo drugs effect on OCD and found that SSRIs were significantly more effective
• supposedly better than CBT because it is less expensive as less monitoring is required and it requires less effort as it is less time consuming

Question 2

What are the weaknesses of Biological Treatments for OCD?

Answer 2

• Soomro found that there are side effects such as headaches, nausea and insomnia
• Turner et al found that there may be publisher bias because the drug companies want the sucess of the drugs they are funding so they only publish positive results or make negative results seem positive when publishing