Gerd Kvale and Bjarne Hansen - The Bergen OCD Format (Ep169)

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🗓️ 14 April 2019

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Disclaimer - This podcast is for exploratory purposes only. The Bergen format is still being studied, and the success rate against weekly therapy is yet to be tested. If you are in therapy with a licensed therapist who understands OCD, and is using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) you have the best treatment backed by decades of robust science whether you do that 1 hour a week, or in 3-week intensive.

In episode 169 of The OCD Stories podcast I interview Gerd Kvale and Bjarne Hansen, both professors and psychologists at the University of Bergen and at Haukeland University Hospital Bergen, Norway. They have created the Bergen OCD treatment format.

Show note: https://theocdstories.com/podcast/gerd-kvale-and-bjarne-hansen-the-bergen-ocd-format

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to episode 169 of the O. C.
0:03.0	O. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C.
0:09.0	A.
0:10.0	I'm welcome to episode 169 of the OCD stories.com podcast. Now in this episode I interview two professors
0:18.6	and psychologists from Norway and that is Gerd Kavale and Byanh Hansen.
0:25.0	They created the Bergen format, which is a four-day treatment format for A.
0:30.0	And I'm excited to share this with you. You may have seen this treatment method talked
0:37.7	about a lot in the press and the media and on various ACD websites in recent months.
0:42.1	That's because they've done a big study
0:43.9	looking into it and but they have been doing this for quite a while and it's great
0:49.8	to get them on to kind of finally talk about their approach to treating
0:54.9	a C. D so using ERP primarily over four days.
0:58.8	Quite intensive long days.
1:00.6	So but we go into their stories so while they got into research in OCD, we talk a bit about what OCD treatments like in Norway, which is fascinating.
1:10.0	And then we go into the Bergen format, so what does the four days look like, what goes on in the four days, how is it approached.
1:18.0	We talk about maintenance, that is, you know, towards the end of therapy your therapists might say okay how how can we
1:24.2	kind of maintain this going on how can you keep doing ERP and using the things you've
1:29.2	learned so we talk about how they achieve that within the four days.
1:34.0	And you may hear me talk about or say the word Y-box,
1:39.0	and that is the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive scale. It's just a scale used. Sometimes with therapists
1:46.8	and clinicians, but especially in research they use it to see how severe OCD symptoms are, and they do that sort of before middle and end and at
1:55.4	follow-up stages to see, you know, if what they're testing is being effective.
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