Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD

Sharing a great consultation opportunity for licensed therapists who want to learn more about supporting LGBTQIA+ clients through OCD treatment 👇🏻

…listen and share! The brief, anonymous survey is available at tinyurl.com/57U9Y3PM or you can email us at NationalOCDSurvey@bcm.edu. /4

…and to @colinwoodard.bsky.social for his pioneering work on the eleven distinct regions that define the United States, which we’ve relied on heavily for this study. As you'll hear in the episode, we are still seeking participants 18+ with OCD in South Florida OR southern Louisiana, so please /3

This study has been a real highlight in my career and after two full years of recruitment and 3,000+ participants, it's very gratifying to be able to share these findings! This study has truly taken a village and I’m so grateful to my study team at the @bcmstorchlab.bsky.social, my collaborators, /2

YouTube video by FearCast Podcast #241- The National OCD Survey with Dr. Caitlin Pinciotti and Jon Hershfield

I joined Kevin Foss & Jon Hershfield on the FearCast Podcast to talk about The National OCD Survey and how & why OCD themes like contamination, moral and religious scrupulosity, and sexual orientation are more or less common in different regions of the United States: youtu.be/ZU4cw4Pniuk?... /1

📢 Call for unpublished data for a meta-analysis on bisexual people's experiences of "double discrimination" (from heterosexual and lesbian/gay sources)!

Details: tinyurl.com/yc75amzb

Email/DM by 9/5/25!

@apadivision44.bsky.social @abct-sgm-sig.bsky.social @eupha-sgmh.bsky.social

They are, so pure and uncomplicated. My boy Otis ❤️

As someone who just endured this agony, I’m wishing you the strength, clarity, and grace you need to get through. Some things are more important than balls and courts. So sorry you’re going through this

📣 Hey southern Louisianans! 📣

🟣Do you have OCD?
🟡Do you want to help make sure national OCD research includes your unique experiences?
🟢 Do you have 10 minutes to spare??

If so, please complete our anonymous survey at: tinyurl.com/57U9Y3PM or NationalOCDSurvey@bcm.edu

& please share widely! ⚜️

Benchmarking empirical severity for the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-Second Edition The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is considered the primary instrument for assessing the presence and severity of obsessive-compulsiv…

Huge shoutout to the massive multinational team who supported this work and to my co-authors, especially Matti Cervin for his statistical brilliance and Eric Storch for his leadership on this project and the Y-BOCS-II. Free access for 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

These benchmarks represent an upward shift of moderate and severity score ranges compared to the Y-BOCS. A lack of participants in the CGI category “among the most extremely ill” precluded our ability to provide more nuance in the “severe” range (eg, “extreme/debilitating OCD”) /5

Total Y-BOCS-II scores were compared against Clinical Global Impression-Severity scores (1-7). Suggested benchmarks were: 0-14 (non/subclinical), 15-21 (mild), 22-34 (moderate), and 35-50 (severe). These were similar across gender and age groups /4

We used a sample of 3,061 participants collected from 2 samples: the LATINO study, representing Latin American/Hispanic children and adults (7-89 years) from 12 countries and a holdout sample of 78 children and adults (15-78 years) from outpatient psychiatry clinics in China /3

Benchmarks for the Y-BOCS were recently updated (Cervin at el 2022) yet benchmarks had yet to be established for the Y-BOCS-II which has, among other changes, a higher total score severity ceiling (50 instead of 40) to better capture the most debilitating OCD cases. /2

🚨 New publication 🚨 I’m proud to share our recent work establishing severity benchmarks for the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-2nd Edition in a multinational sample. /1

Can’t wait to dive into two studies that have been so near and dear for many years. Hope to see you at the annual IOCDF conference in Chicago this weekend!

🌟New publication!🌟

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Brief Intervention for Youth Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Pediatric Primary Care Providers

It was great to be part of the team on this project. I’m excited about continuing this work! @cmpinciotti.bsky.social

#suicideprevention

It was a massive team effort and couldn’t have done it without you!

Today at 12 ET, @bfeinsteinphd.bsky.social , Andreas Bezahler, and I will join the IOCDF Research Roundtable to share about all the research being done on OCD in the LGBTQIA+ community. Join us to learn what we know-and don’t know-about OCD in this community!

..collection ends for the National OCD Survey, I’ll be publishing our findings on the regional/sociocultural differences in OCD. Really neat stuff, I’m happy to share once it’s final!

Ah sorry to hear you won’t be there! Yes, I recently published a theoretical paper with @bfeinsteinphd.bsky.social introducing the cognitive behavioral-minority stress model and we have a quantitative paper under review testing it. Those relate to the sociocultural topic as well, and once data …

Looking forward to presenting at
@abctnow.bsky.social in New Orleans this fall! I’ve lucked out and will be on four (!) talks covering Hurricane Helene, the cognitive behavioral-minority stress model of OCD, OCD+PTSD comorbidity, and sociocultural influences on OCD. Can’t wait for November!

I’m looking forward to giving a primer on justice-based ERP for identity-related OCD for the Mount Sinai Health System’s Department of Psychiatry Just Talks lecture series. Join us virtually for free (or $30 for CE/CMEs) next Wednesday May 28th 11-12 ET.

www.eventbrite.com/e/justice-ba...

Our new paper describing how we can move the field forward on co-occurring #ocd & #eatingdisorders is now out

Give it a read!

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

@uofleatlab.bsky.social

Was so great collaborating with you, Daphne! Thanks for all your help!

Justice-Based ERP Additional sensitivity is needed when applying ERP to identity-related OCD themes that involve marginalized identities or communities (e.g., those related to sexual orientation, gender identity, disab...

There’s still time to register for my course on Justice-Based ERP (2 CEs) hosted by the OCD Training School this Thursday 2-4pm eastern (or on demand for one year). Purchase for $75 using the link below. Hope to see you there!

www.ocdtrainingschool.com/justice-base...

In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Soul Survivor Network is awarding scholarships to college survivors of sexual violence who have incurred financial hardship because of crimes committed against them. Funds can be used for therapy, tuition costs, food, etc. #SAAM

Anyone in the U.S. is invited to participate. We are especially needing more representation from: NYC, DC, DMV area, New Orleans, south Florida, and Hawaii - so please share widely 🙌🏻

After 20 months and 4000+ participants across all 50 US states, we’re nearing the end of recruitment for The National OCD Survey 🇺🇸 If you have OCD, please consider participating in & sharing this 10-minute survey of regional differences in OCD. Tinyurl.com/57U9Y3PM or NationalOCDSurvey@bcm.edu

Sharing a treatment opportunity for LGBTQIA+ people with OCD/anxiety in Tennessee or Alabama. $50/session 👇🏻