OCD & Anxiety Workshop: Comprehensive Treatment for BFRBs: Everything You Need to Know About Treating Hair Pulling and Skin Picking

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.
Category
- Anxiety/OCD
- Psychotherapy
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 4.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 4.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 4.00 Psychologists
- 4.00 Participation
Event date March 21, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Protest Psychosis: Race, Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Battles over the role of “race” in education and the structures that uphold racial privilege and inequity burst into the national spotlight in the 2020s. But the origins of the debate, and the politics that undergird it, track back decades, and play out in unexpected ways. In this thought-provoking talk, Dr. Metzl provides an analysis of how, within the sociopolitical context of the 1960s and 1970s, the intersection of race and mental health altered the way that mental illness was diagnosed, understood, and treated in the United States. Once considered a nonthreatening disease that primarily targeted white middle-class women, Metzl provides an historical exploration of how schizophrenia became associated with the perceived hostility, rebellion, mistrust, and violence of Black men during the Civil Rights movement.
Category
- Grand Rounds
- Mood Disorders
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.50 Psychologists
- 1.50 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.50 Participation
Event date April 4, 2025
Cost $0.00
Professional Workshop Series: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEANING: How Individual Worldviews Are Constructed in Relationships

Productive and meaningful therapy often hinges on a clear understanding of the worldview of the client. Deepened, more empathic understanding of clients would be enhanced by knowledge of how such individual worldviews arise and evolve. Such information about the construction of individual meaning systems is now available, based upon rigorous longitudinal research. The goal of this presentation is to summarize this emerging knowledge in a way that makes clear its clinical relevance.
Category
- Basic Science
- Psychotherapy
- Workshop
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.50 Psychologists
- 1.50 Participation
Event date April 25, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Suicide Prevention and Resilience: Voices of Lived Experience

Most lectures on suicide assume an academic perspective by focusing exclusively on research related to suicide or clinical disorders associated with suicide. This presentation will take a different perspective by presenting information about evidence-based strategies for suicide prevention and then hearing from three survivors of suicide attempts about their experiences with some of these strategies. The participants will learn about the non-linear and unexpected path each survivor took to recover from their intense suicidality. What worked, what didn’t, and how unexpected interventions and social connection contributed to traditional treatments. The testimonies of the survivors will be honest in their appraisal of the behavioral health system, and the effort and commitment required to achieve recovery. The important takeaway of the presentation is that no single treatment for suicidality is effective for all patients, and each patient will experience periods of trial and error as they search for the treatment that is most effective for them. Ultimately, each person finds treatments that support their functionality realizing that treatments for suicidality are often not fully curative.
Category
- Grand Rounds
- Suicide/Crisis
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.50 Psychologists
- 1.50 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.50 Participation
Event date June 4, 2025
Cost $0.00