Traditional Exposure Therapy Versus the Inhibitory Learning Approach: An Evaluation of Treatment Outcomes

We compared two models of exposure therapy (habituation versus inhibitory learning). Participants were 1,328 individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder. We found that there was no significant difference in the number of clinically significant responders between the groups (χ²(1)=2.20, p=0.138). These results highlight the comparable effectiveness of the two approaches.