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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Sep 4

…listen and share! The brief, anonymous survey is available at tinyurl.com/57U9Y3PM or you can email us at [email protected]. /4

Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Sep 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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

#241- The National OCD Survey with Dr. Caitlin Pinciotti and Jon Hershfield

YouTube video by FearCast Podcast

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Brian Feinstein (he/him) @bfeinsteinphd.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 Call for unpublished data for a meta-analysis on bisexual people's experiences of "double discrimination" (from heterosexual and lesbian/gay sources)!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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 24

📣 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 [email protected]

& please share widely! ⚜️

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

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…

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 9

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!

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Dr. Sean Mitchell @drseanmitchell.bsky.social · Jul 2

🌟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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jun 12

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!

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jun 5

..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!

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jun 5

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 …

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Jun 4

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!

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · May 22

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...

Justice-Based Exposure and Response Prevention for Identity-Related OCD

Department of Psychiatry CHANGE Committee (Community, Humanity, Advocacy, Nurturing, Growth, Equity) Lecture Series

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · May 8

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

Movement Toward Dimensional Symptom Models of Comorbid Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder and Eating Disorders | Annual Reviews

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders (EDs) are highly comorbid. Despite the high comorbidity, there is little understanding of why these disorders coexist and even less research on...

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Caitlin Pinciotti, PhD @cmpinciotti.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

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