SL_RogersBehavioralHealth_Profile_4_24_Profile 5 / 3 / 24 12 : 14 PM Page 2 The paper examined the efficacy of multi - modal treatment , including intensive cogni - tive - behavioral therapy , for pediatric OCD delivered via telehealth during the COVID - 19 pandemic . One of the most remarkable aspects of the study involved the sample size — nearly 1,300 youths , ages seven to 17 — a number Dr . Franklin describes as “ five times larger ” than that of any prior study pertaining to OCD . He credits Rogers Chief Strategy Officer Brian Kay , Ph.D . , for his visionary work in streamlining Rogers ’ data - collection process . “ We’ve been doing this work for a long time , so we have a lot of data , ” Dr . Franklin says . “ I’m an expert in pediatric OCD , but we could literally do the same [ study ] with every service line we have : eating disorders , trauma , depression . … In the next three or four years , we’re likely to publish 25 to 30 pa - pers in top - tier journals about the work we’re doing at Rogers . ” The thinking is that cutting - edge research will in turn lead to cutting - edge patient out - comes — within the Rogers network and elsewhere . As a result , Dr . Franklin believes what we call an accommodation behavior . Rogers will be “ in a position to change the The accommodation serves the same pur - entire field ” of mental health treatment for pose as the ritual , so you’re children and adults within essentially robbing the child the next five years . of the opportunity to sit “ We need to do better , ” with this distress and learn says Dr . Franklin , who re - how to cope . ” cently turned 60 . “ I want to Dr . Reeder is currently spendthe next 10 years hon - collaborating with re - ing my craft , getting better searchers from the Yale treatment [ for patients ] be - School of Public Health to yond the academic centers , TheMental Health and Addiction Recovery Program study OCD patients and andmentoring the next gen - allowspatients to receive care in a bright , clean , and their relatives to better un - eration of scientists [ such as supportiveenvironment while staying at home and derstand the role of family Rogers research psycholo - maintaininga regular schedule . accommodation in the gists Rachel Schwartz , Ph.D . , the child , teen , or adult who has the disorder , treatment of OCD . The goal : and Hana Zickgraf , Ph.D . ] . but also for those around them . to develop more effective Even if I stay for a decade and Dr . Reeder has worked with OCD pa - waysof addressing family ac - do everything I set out to do , tients from ages six to 82 , though the majority commodation in the context this work will not be done . ” Rogers psychologist Martin E . of her patient population consists of young ofbehavioral treatment . Like Drs . Boyer and Franklin , Ph.D . , is spearheading adults . After a comprehensive assessment , Rogers has long been Reeder , Dr . Franklin ties his cutting - edgeresearch that has the Dr . Reeder or another OCD and anxiety spe - known as a pioneer in the career trajectory to experi - potentialto “ change the entire field ” cialistworks with each patient individually to fieldof mental health . The or - ences from his formative ofmental health treatment for developan exposure hierarchy , set goals , and ganization has been provid - years . His father , an Irish im - childrenand adults . otherwise guide the patient forward . OCD ing pathways to recovery for migrant who came to the may be a lifelong condition , but Dr . Reeder more than a century , and in that time it has UnitedStates in the 1950s , spent much of his wants each patient to leave Rogers ’ care hav - widened its footprint across the country . adult life helping alcoholics find and maintain ing learned how to function more effectively Considering its history and the scope of its sobriety . in the midst of anxiety . work , Rogers has become a leader in re - “ I watched my dad bring people into the “ OCD makes the sufferer’s world small , ” search that’s shaping the conversation housewho were at their lowest points , ” he she says . “ It’s not an easy condition to live around the treatments and therapies of to - recalls . “ He’s the one who got me to under - with , but it does get better with treatment . ” morrow . stand that there’s more to life than making OCD shaped Dr . Reeder’s life from an Martin E . Franklin , Ph.D . , spent several money . ‘ Are you helping people , or are you early age . She says her older brother and decades in academia before joining Rogers not ? ’ He’s the one who put that in my head . younger sister both had the disorder , which full - timein 2019 . He published widely during I feel like I’m doing that at Rogers , and I’m “ affected my family in every way . ” his 20 years on faculty at the University of surrounded by great people who are doing ? “ The families we see are severely im - Pennsylvania’sDepartment of Psychiatry , and thesame . ” pacted , ” she adds . “ A parent’s instinct is to hecontinues to do so this day . In fact , he was nurture and to help , so what often happens thelead author of a research paper published Rogers Behavioral Health is that when a child is very anxious , a parent in a 2024 edition of JAACAP Open , a peer - re - D 1 Winding Drive , Suite 106 will intervene to help reduce those feelings viewed , open - access journal of the American Philadelphia , PA 19131 of anxiety by reassuring the child . This is Academyof Child and Adolescent Psychiatry . ( 800 ) 767 - 4411 | ( 267 ) 787 - 6600 rogersbh.org / locations / philadelphia