A podcast host discussing mental health treatment claims: 'Chemical interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are just temporary patches. Because OCD is fundamentally driven by faulty thinking patterns, psychological therapies are the only genuinely effective way to resolve the condition.'
Use your knowledge of biological and psychological explanations of OCD to assess the validity of this claim, comparing the effectiveness of a biological treatment with a psychological treatment.
Practise Edexcel A Level Psychology Content with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 1,059 questions covering Bowlby's work on attachment, Ainsworth and the Strange Situation, Research into deprivation, Research into privation, Research into day care, Cross-cultural research into attachment, Autism, Individual differences, and Developmental psychology, matched to the Edexcel A Level Psychology (9PS0) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.
