OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Comprehensive Treatment for BFRBs: Everything You Need to Know About Treating Hair Pulling and Skin Picking
This presentation will be an IN PERSON AND LIVE STREAMED broadcast on March 21, 2025, from 12:00 pm - 4:15 pm ET. While this activity is LIVE and can only be viewed during the time specified, the evaluation will be available online until April 18, 2025. Go to the Register tab above to learn how to participate for continuing education credit, watch the broadcast and download the slides.
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Have you ever been faced with a client with a BFRB and not known how to approach treatment? Hair pulling and skin picking disorders (Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors or BFRBs) are fairly common, yet treatment information is lacking, and knowledgeable treatment providers are scarce. This talk seeks to address the dearth of available, evidence-based treatment by providing a comprehensive description of what BFRBs are (and what they are not), information on how to conceptualize BFRBs utilizing an individualized approach based upon a functional analysis, as well as specific treatment guidelines for building an individualized treatment plan. Participants will learn to diagnose, conceptualize, and treat BFRBs utilizing a functional analytic approach that is tailored to the individual. Dealing with treatment resistance, co-morbid disorders, and addressing shame will all be covered in this thorough clinical training taught by two recognized experts in the field of BFRBs, Time will be allotted for clinical questions and case conceptualization.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors and other mental health professionals.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the etiology, prevalence, and conceptualization of BFRBs
- Apply knowledge gathered from the functional analysis to prescribe useful and effective interventions that are tailored to the individual.
- Discuss how to engage individuals in treatment, and how to individualize treatment plans to achieve the best possible outcomes.
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To reach the Conference Center enter the campus from Charles Street using Gatehouse Drive. Stay on Gatehouse Drive bearing left when it forks at Pratt Drive. Continue a short distance and Conference Center Drive will be on your left. Follow Conference Center Drive to the facility. Park in front of the building.
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About the speakers
Dr. Mouton-Odum is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, the Founder and Director of Psychology Houston, PC: The Center for Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, and President of PsycTech, LLC. Dr. Mouton-Odum has extensive experience conducting cognitive behavioral treatment for children, adolescents, and adults, and evidence-based psychological treatments. She specializes in treating people with BFRBs, OCD, tic disorders, and other anxiety disorders. Dr. Mouton-Odum is Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the TLC Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors and has served on this board for more than 20 years. She has published numerous scientific journal articles, presents at national and international conferences, and is co-author of four books for the general public and two books for professionals. Relevant book titles include: “A Parent Guide to Hair Pulling Disorder” and “Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) Treatment for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, A Clinical Guide.”
Ruth Goldfinger Golomb, LCPC, is a senior clinician, supervisor, and a co-director of the training program at the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington, where she has worked since the mid 1980's. Ms. Golomb specializes in treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adults. She has conducted numerous workshops and seminars, and participated as an expert in panel discussions covering many topics including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Trichotillomania and other Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs), and providing cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for anxious adults. In addition to publishing articles for professional journals and newsletters, Ms Golomb is an author of "The Hair Pulling 'Habit' and You: How to Solve the Trichotillomania Puzzle," “Stay Out of My Hair” and “A Parent Guide to Hair Pulling Disorder: Effective Parenting Strategies for Children with Trichotillomania,” “Overcoming Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, “ “Psychological Interventions for Children with Sensory Dysregulation,”“ Helping Your Child with Sensory Regulation.”” Overcoming Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors” and “Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors.” She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for The TLC Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors.
Disclosure Statements
Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.
Suzanne Mouton-Odum, Ph.D , reports that she is the owner of PsycTech, LLC and receives royalties from cbittrainer.com. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.
Ruth Golomb, LCPC, reports receiving royalties from New Harbinger, Cambridge University Press, Guilford, Goldum Publishing. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.
Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as 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 24 months: Jon Hershfield, MFT, Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Paula Bostwick, MSN, RN, CENP, Alfredo Sagisi, DNP, MS, RN, FACHE, Maggie O'Neill MSN, RN, PMH-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.
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Available Credit
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