Religious-integrated therapy for religious obsessive-compulsive disorder in an adolescent: a case report and literature review
Religious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is relatively underreported among adolescent and carries poorer outcome. We report a 20-year-old Muslim man who was diagnosed with religious OCD when he was 14 years old. He had recurrent blasphemous intrusive thoughts upon performing religious ritua...
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Routledge
2017
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| Summary: | Religious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is relatively underreported
among adolescent and carries poorer outcome. We
report a 20-year-old Muslim man who was diagnosed with
religious OCD when he was 14 years old. He had recurrent
blasphemous intrusive thoughts upon performing religious rituals
which had hindered him from practising his religion. Despite
being on tablet esticalopram 10 mg and conventional cognitive–
behavioural therapy, the result was to no avail. A religiousintegrated
therapy was introduced by incorporating some of the
Islamic values, knowledge, and practice during the exposure and
response prevention therapy for five consecutive days along with
cognitive restructuring. A considerable amount of symptom and
functional relief was achieved. He excelled in his studies and
equally important was able to resume practising his religion.
Religious-integrated therapy is an untapped area that should be
offered as the treatment option in certain cases where religion
plays an important role in illness’s phenomenology and patient’s
coping. |
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