Multiple barriers exist for youth access to exposure and response prevention therapy

DENVER — Multiple socioeconomic and clinician-based factors prevent access to and utilization of exposure and response prevention therapy for youths, a speaker said at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America annual conference.
“We have a childhood anxiety program called PATCH, which is a treatment for OCD and anxiety. In Philadelphia and surrounding counties, there is only one agency that does exposure therapy for kids without medical assistance,” Douglas Clapp, LMFT, of Hall-Mercer Community Mental Health at Penn Hospital, said during the presentation.
“If there’s

DENVER — Multiple socioeconomic and clinician-based factors prevent access to and utilization of exposure and response prevention therapy for youths, a speaker said at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America annual conference.
“We have a childhood anxiety program called PATCH, which is a treatment for OCD and anxiety. In Philadelphia and surrounding counties, there is only one agency that does exposure therapy for kids without medical assistance,” Douglas Clapp, LMFT, of Hall-Mercer Community Mental Health at Penn Hospital, said during the presentation.
“If there’s