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aPPENDIX 11.2

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List of Control Strategies a

ssociated with Primary Obsession

(continued)

Frequency That Strategy

Is Used

0 = never 1 = occasionally 2 = often 3 = frequently 4 = daily 5 = several times a day

How Effective Is This Strategy in Stopping Obsessional Thinking?

0 = never effective 1 = occasionally effective 2 = often effective 3 = frequently effective 4 = always effective

How Effective Is This Strategy in Reducing

Distress?

0 = never effective 1 = occasionally effective 2 = often effective 3 = frequently effective 4 = always effective

6. Distract myself by doing something. [

bD]

7. Distract myself by thinking another, possibly pleasant, thought or

image. [CD]

8. Try to relax myself. [R] 9. Tell myself to stop thinking the obsession. [TS]10. g

et angry, down on myself for thinking the obsession. [P]

11.

Try to avoid anything that will trigger the obsession. [A]

12.

Do nothing when I get the obsession. [DN]

Strategies adapted from Freeston and Ladouceur’s

Struc

tured Interview on Neutralization

(see Ladouceur et al., 2000

), the

Thought Control Questionnaire

(Wells & Davies,

1994), and the

Revised Obsessional Intrusions Inventor

y (Purdon & Clark, 1994b).

Coding Key:

b

C = behavioral compulsion, MC = mental compulsion

, CR = cognitive restructuring, SR = self-reassurance, o

R = other reassurance, b

D = behavioral distraction,

CD = cognitive distraction, R = relaxation, TS = thought s

topping, P = punishment, A = avoidance, DN = do nothin

g.