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Preliminary findings from case studies involving 19 participants with OCD suggest that the new treatment, called Response Disequilibrium Therapy (RDx), may be a promising alternative to traditional OCD treatments, producing similar outcomes more efficiently and with less stress to the client and therapist.

APS Fellow Richard M. McFall and his colleagues at Indiana University report their findings in Clinical Psychological Science.

Unlike some OCD treatments, RDx does not focus on the causes of a client’s symptoms or other aspects of the client’s life or feelings. Instead, it establishes a controlled link between the client’s symptomatic behavior and a positive daily activity. Access to the positive activity now must be earned by decreasing the baseline level of the negative behavior. This link, or constraint, puts the two behaviors in disequilibrium relative to their baseline levels. Clients will work to establish a new equilibrium by reducing or eliminating their symptomatic behavior.

To illustrate this disequilibrium concept, consider an OCD client who engages in 18 episodes of excessive hand washing per day (not counting normal occasions, such as after using the restroom). The client’s positive behavior is watching TV about 90 minutes per day. The RDx treatment links access to TV viewing to a scheduled reduction in hand washing episodes. The goal in the first week is to cut the hand washing in half, from 18 to 9 episodes per day. Each decrease in daily hand-washing episodes earns 10 minutes of TV time, which the client deposits in a metaphorical “checkbook.” The client cannot watch TV without having earned the time; but if the treatment goal has been met, the client will not be deprived of the normal amount of TV time. Over subsequent weeks the treatment goal is to continue cutting the client’s symptom level in half until it has been reduced or eliminated.

Exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), the current treatment of choice for OCD, requires therapists to expose clients to the triggers for their symptoms, such as shaking hands for someone who dwells on the spread of germs. Therapists provide clients with calming reassurance and the exposure exercise continues until clients’ arousal levels recede significantly, which can take considerable time.

RDx puts clients in charge of implementing their own treatment procedure outside of the therapy session in the same environment that triggers their symptoms.

“In effect, clients learn new behaviors that replace and control their previous symptomatic responses to distressing situations,” McFall explains.

To test the treatment, the researchers randomly assigned a group of 41 patients to either RDx or ERP treatment. Of the 34 clients assigned to RDx, 15 received interventions that deviated from the protocol and were reclassified into a mixed/no treatment group.

All 19 of the study’s OCD clients who received the full RDx treatment and complied with the procedure experienced good to excellent outcomes, the research team reports. Three of the mixed/no treatment patients also showed symptom reductions, although the researchers caution that they can’t attribute the improvements solely to RDx.

RDx may not work for all clients or all problems, the researchers say, but future research could confirm it to be an efficient, cost-effective, and valuable addition to mental health-care providers’ toolbox.

HSC Students interested in Accounting career With its flexible learning and student-friendly examination systems, it gets you off the block. It also equips you for roles beyond accounting to build a long-term career.

Graduating students interested in Accounting Careers Since you get several exemptions, the ACCA program is a faster and cheaper way for you to prepare for multiple roles and to open doors of multinational companies.

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ACCA and CA both get you to become an accountant. ACCA teaches accounting from a global perspective, while CA is accounting for India.

In terms of the course content, CA focuses on Finance and Financial Accounting where as ACCA focuses on Taxation, auditing, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting and more.

Becoming a CA would require you to pass 9 papers whereas ACCA has 13 papers. It is noteworthy to know that ACCA has many exemptions.

To know if you are eligible for ACCA exemptions

CAs are preferred only in India, whereas ACCAs are preferred across the globe. CAs in India with an average experience of 2-3 years can earn up to 8 lakhs per annum, whereas ACCAs in the UK, on an average with 2-3 years of experience, earn around £64,000

ACCA Qualifications open multiple options at a wide range of organisations because:

ACCA itself isn’t the conventional undergraduate degree that you really get. But ACCA fundamental level gives you the knowledge and applied skills that could be considered equivalent to a bachelor’s degree. The professional level is considered equivalent to a master’s degree. But overall, ACCA isn’t a conventional degree. It is a professional certification.

Most of the ACCA-qualified professionals in India are employed with the Big 4s or MNCs. Employers in India have now become aware of ACCA qualifications and are hiring them eagerly. The leading employers in India for ACCA are Price Waterhouse Coopers, Ernst and Young, Deloitte, KPMG, TATA Communications, Embassy Group, Grant Thornton, etc. CA and ACCA members are increasingly offered similar job profiles, designations and salary packages.

India has taken another step closer towards globalisation by introducing Ind-AS drafted and implementing principles identical to IFRS. ACCA covers IFRS broadly in its syllabus, giving ACCA members in India an edge.

With many financial KPOs in India, India has become a central outsourcing hub for accounting and financial functions. Employers prefer ACCA-qualified professionals for handling these functions.

In India, the salary offered to ACCA fresher students or members is between INR 3,00,000 to INR 8,00,000.

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To qualify as an ACCA member, a candidate must do the following:

Now let’s deep dive into each of the ACCA levels

Students are awarded the ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business (RQF Level 4) when they have successfully completed the Business and Technology (BT), Management Accounting (MA) and Financial Accounting (FA) exams (at least one of which must have been sat and passed), plus completion of Foundations in Professionalism.

Subjects in the Applied skills level include

Students are awarded the Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business when they have successfully completed (either passed or exempt) the Applied Skills exams. At least two of these papers must have been sat and passed.

Students need to prepare for 4 subjects out of 6. They are divided into essential and optional modules

Essentials:

Students are awarded a Strategic Professional Certificate when they have successfully completed all the Strategic Professional exams of the ACCA Qualification. These are the two Strategic Professional Essentials exams and any two of the Strategic Professional Options exams.

Students are required to complete 20 hrs of the Ethics and Professional Skills Module, which develops the complete range of skills that employers demand.

By introducing students to the full spectrum of advanced ethical and professional skills and exposing them to realistic business situations, students are ready to shine with recruiters and be really credible in the workplace.

To qualify as an ACCA member, the candidate must complete a minimum of 36 months of relevant work experience and achieve 9 performance objectives.

A practical experience supervisor must sign off the candidate’s time in a relevant role and performance objectives.

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* Minimum Entry Requirements: The minimum entry requirements for ACCA Qualification, beginning at the Knowledge level, is as below:

passes should be held in 5 subjects including English and Mathematics / Accounts, 65% marks in at least 2 subjects and over 50% on the others. You may qualify for exemptions from some modules if you possess higher qualifications.

# Please note that even a CA Final Pursuing candidate can be eligible for more exemptions if they score 40 or more marks in the relevant subject in the CA Final Examination.

Similarly, a candidate who has not qualified for the CA IPCC Exams but scored 40 marks or more in the relevant subject of the CA IPCC Exam is eligible for more exemptions.

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ACCA has a flexible study approach & has two types of computer-based exams.

ACCA isn’t a difficult exam; it is easier to clear the ACCA compared to other professional finance and accountancy courses like the CA and CFA. It is more challenging than the school and undergraduate tests with which most students are familiar.

The Global Professional Accountancy Course from IMS Proschool prepares you for ACCA and practical skills such as financial modelling required when entering the corporate world. The institute also provides 100% placement support, including access to a dedicated placement portal, resume building, mock interviews, etc.