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Past Presentations by Our Staff and Affiliates

Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD, ABPP, Gabriela Romo, PhD, Nathan Dowling, PhD, Jackki Yam, PhD and Camila Larrea conducted a symposium titled: Transforming Nations Mental Health Care Systems for OCD: Lessons from Global Successes & Challenges at the 30th Annual International OCD Foundation Conference, July 10-13, 2025 in Chicago, IL.

Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD, ABPP, Gabriela Romo, PhD, Nathan Dowling, PhD, Jackki Yam, PhD and Camila Larrea conducted a symposium titled: Transforming Nations Mental Health Care Systems for OCD: Lessons from Global Successes & Challenges at the 30th Annual International OCD Foundation Conference, July 10-13, 2025 in Chicago, IL.
Abstract:

Access to effective OCD treatment varies dramatically across countries, both in availability and affordability. This presentation highlights successful national mental health transformations in Norway, Singapore, and Finland, where the Bergen 4-Day Treatment (B4DT) for OCD has been integrated into healthcare systems. Additionally, ongoing efforts in Australia, Ecuador and the United States to expand access to evidence-based OCD care will be discussed. Key lessons learned, including ways to overcome barriers to implementation, advocacy, political involvement, harnessing treatment outcome data and scaling innovative treatments, will provide actionable insights for transforming mental health systems worldwide.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

- Nelson Mandela

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

- Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be

- Douglas Adams

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

- Douglas Adams

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

- Douglas Adams

Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you

- Bethany Hamilton

Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.

- Albus Dumbledore

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it

- Judy Blume

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

- Douglas Adams

It ain’t over ’til it’s over.

- Yogi Berra

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you make

- Rumi

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

The future ain’t what it used to be.

- Yogi Berra

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of ever fear is freedom

- Marilyn Ferguson

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by

- Douglas Adams

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

- Albus Dumbledore

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

- Douglas Adams

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

- Yogi Berra

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

- Douglas Adams

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

- Dan Millman

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

- Helen Keller

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

- Henry Ford

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