Eric Storch is a Professor of Clinical Psychology Professor and Vice ChairPsychiatry & Behav Sciences Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX US and worked until 2018 at the University of South Florida. He is also the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Guild Endowed Chair. He is a world-leading expert in obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, specialising in the cognitive behavioural treatment of adult and childhood OCD, as well as the treatment of anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorders. Professor Storch has published over 450 journal articles, 60 book chapters, and has edited 15 books. He has received over $13 million in grant funding for his research on OCD and related topics. He is also a highly sought after public speaker, having recently given invited presentations across the United States, China, El Salvador and Brazil.
In September 2017, Eric Storch was invited by Melissa Norberg, National President of AACBT and Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University to hold a workshop for psychologists (clinical, educational, interns) who have a solid grounding in cognitive behavioural theory and exposure therapy. Although I am not a psychologist, I was able to attend this workshop as part of my former role at the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, my personal strong interest in OCD and my lived experience as a carer. I had the opportunity to be introduced to Eric Storch and continued to communicate with him for some time after the workshop. We discussed a possible collaboration with Australia but this is now some years ago. I wonder if ACPA would be interested in an OCD online event by Eric Storch (I could find out if he would be interested). Perhaps this could be one of the first event collaboration items with AACBT?
Bruce Wampold mentioned mentioned during this presentation that psychotherapy is effective on Depression, PTSD, Anxiety (panic, DAD, GAD),Childhood disorders (incl. externalising Dx), Eating disorder, Alcohol/substance use disorders but listed on his slide "OCD?" with a question mark. When I asked him after his presentation about this, he replied that from his point of view, OCD is best treated with behavioural therapy/ERP.
I share with you a link to a CME article with the title
Management of OCD: Focus on Psychotherapy Ashleigh M. Harvey, MS; Katharine D. Wojcik, PhD; Andrew D. Wiese, PhD; Wayne K. Goodman, MD; and Eric A. Storch, PhD
Happy to hear your thoughts :)