On Demand OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Helping the Families of OCD Treatment-Refusers

This presentation was last reviewed on July 10, 2024, and broadcast live online on April 23, 2021, from 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM ET.

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Families are the forgotten victims of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), especially when the individual affected is unwilling to seek help. Clinicians typically have little to offer these families, believing nothing can be done until the individual’s motivation for treatment changes. This presentation will describe Family Well-Being Consultation (FWBC), an approach developed to help families of individuals with OCD who do not seek recovery. Participants in this workshop will learn the family interaction patterns typically surrounding treatment-refusal, methods for assessing family interaction patterns, and a treatment model developed to improve family functioning and promote treatment-seeking. The presentation will use a combination of lecture, slides, demonstrations, and case discussion.

 

Target Audience

This activity is intended for psychologists, social workers, counselors, therapists and other mental health professionals.

Learning Objectives

After this lecture, registrants will be able to:

1. Define the concept of recovery avoidance.

2. Describe two types of family responses that reinforce recovery avoidance.

3. Articulate the critical concepts and assumptions of Family Well-Being Consultation.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category II credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
Course opens: 
08/01/2024
Course expires: 
07/30/2026
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About the speaker

C. Alec Pollard, PhD, is Founder and Director of the Center for OCD and Anxiety-Related Disorders at Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute and Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at Saint Louis University. He is on the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation and chairs the organization’s Training Subcommittee, including a national training initiative called the Behavior Therapy Training Institute. He serves as a reviewer for a number of professional journals and conference program committees and has authored over 100 publications, including 2 books: The Agoraphobia Workbook and Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety & Phobia. He is currently coauthoring a book to help families who are dealing with a treatment-refuser.

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C. Alec Pollard, PhD, reports having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 12 months. He will not discuss any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, or off-label uses in this presentation. This presentation was initially planned and recorded prior to January 1, 2023; therefore, the financial disclosure statement from the speaker reflects only the preceding 12 months, as was the standard at the time. This enduring activity was last reviewed for content validity on July 10, 2024. All conflicts have been mitigated through review.

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Available Credit

  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category II credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
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OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Helping the Families of OCD Treatment-Refusers

C. Alec Pollard, PhD

Director, Center for OCD and Anxiety-Related Disorders

St. Louis, Missouri

Last reviewed on July 10, 2024.
Originally broadcast live April 23, 2021, from 9:00 am - 10:45 am ET.
Enduring Activity Credit Expiration Date: July 30, 2026.

Activity Time: Ninety-minute recorded webinar lecture with a fifteen-minute evaluation process. Total Time: 1:45

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