strengths of bio treatments

• Research support – Soomro conducted a review of research examining the effectiveness of SSRI’s compared to placebos and found that they were significantly more effective than placebos in the treatment across 17 different trials
• Cost effectiveness – cheap in comparison to other psychological treatments like cognitive behavioural therapy – as they are cheaper psychologist prefer to prescribe these instead of psychological treatments which is beneficial for health service provider- drugs don’t need motivation like other treatments as they can be taken every day and are not disruptive to everyday life - More time and therefore cost effective as they are easy to take each day
• One strength of the biological treatments of OCD is that there is research support. EVIDENCE. This conveys the effectiveness of the biological treatment for OCD as it highlights that OCD has a biological basis as it conveys that the effects upon the neurotransmitters have a more validity as a basis of treatment emphasising their usefulness as their effects provide significant benefits in preventing OCD. Therefore one strength of the biological treatments of OCD is that it is backed by Soomro’s research evidence.