<prompt> A 35 yrs female has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and she washes her hands many times a day. Which would be the best CBT technique for her treatment?:Thought stoppingResponse preventionRelaxationExposure  <response>: B i.e. Response prevention - Behaviour therapy BT cognitive behavior therapy CBT used to treat OCD include thought stopping CBT, response prevention, systemic desensitization and modeling Ahuja- 98 Exposure and response prevention better called resonse prevention is the behavioral therapy of choice in OCDQ. It is impoant to understand that it is the response prevention tht makes it more effective than other exposure procedures such as systemic desensitization, invivo exposure, imaginal exposure and interoceptive exposure. Interoceptive exposure IE induce feared physiological sensations eg nausea, tachycardia, dyspnea shoness of breath, dizziness, tingling etc under controlled conditions eg by hyperventilation, breathing through straw or spinning in a chair like maneuvers, with a goal to an activity that produces similar sensations to the one that patients find unduly distressing attempt to avoid. IE is most commonly used in treatment of panic disorder phobias. 