Difficulties, Complications and Resistance: The Artful Science of Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Difficulties, Complications and Resistance: The Artful Science of Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is organized by CE You LLC.
Description:
Dr. Jonathan Grayson, author of “Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” will discuss OCD treatment issues and their solutions. This will include: treatment readiness preparation for clients with different OCD presentations; when and how to modify treatment for co-morbid issues; motivating clients and much more!
Designing a treatment of exposure and response prevention ERP is relatively simple, but obtaining compliance is an art. For many suffering from OCD, complying with treatment feels impossible and unatainable. Far too often, professionals have focused on the ‘resistance' to ERP and the client drop-out rate as reasons to try a different and less effective treatment. Although, such resistance exists, far too often other factors impede treatment compliance including:
• Failure to obtain compliance to treatment/poor treatment preparation;
• Failure to properly identify the feared consequences of exposure, and;
• Issues of denial/acceptance and merged problems (when the feared consequences of co-morbid OCD and non-OCD problems make simultaneous treatment necessary).
In this workshop, the Dr. Grayson will discuss the above treatment issues and their solutions. This will include: treatment readiness preparation for clients with different OCD presentations; when and how to modify treatment for co-morbid issues; motivating clients and incorporating acceptance and commitment (ACT) themes into an exposure and response prevention program without compromising the treatment protocol; and the use of scripts to create an immersive treatment environment.
Learning Objectives:
• Attendees will know how to design and implement a program of exposure and response prevention (ERP) for the many different manifestations of OCD
• Attendees will learn how to identify different sources of treatment resistance, including how to determine when co-morbid issues do or don’t play a role
• Attendees will learn different techniques, including some that are presentation specific , for motivating clients/overcoming client resistance in treatment;
• Attendees will learn how to incorporate and modify for OCD principles of acceptance and commitment (ACT) into state of the art exposure and response prevention protocols
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
• New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
• Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
• Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
• Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.