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Exposure‐based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the gold standard of treatment for both anxiety disorders and Obsessive‐Compulsive Disorder (OCD). During exposure therapy, patients gradually confront and closely attend to feared stimuli while resisting safety behaviors or compulsions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past several decades, there has been a focus on increasing access to evidence‐based practices (EBPs) for youth with psychological disorders. While many well‐tested and efficacious treatments exist, the dissemination and implementation of EBPs in community practice has been met with challenges at both the macro (e.g., systemic) and micro (e.g., therapist and client) levels. Emergent life events (ELEs) are one identified barrier found to decrease fidelity to EBPs in practice settings (Guan, Kim et al., 2019). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]