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Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Invisible Clutter: The Weight of Digital Hoarding
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
02/21/2025
$0.00
Not all clutter takes up physical space. In our increasingly digital world, many individuals struggle with the accumulation of digital information- over saving photos, files, apps, and emails. Digital hoarding can cause significant stress and impairment, hindering one’s ability to live fully. In this workshop, we’ll explore the various causes and methods of digital hoarding and provide insights into breaking the cycle, helping individuals regain control of their digital lives. We will explore Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and an integrative approach that focuses on motivation and emotional regulation, offering a more personalized and compassionate approach to managing digital overload. Case discussions will be utilized to illustrate different skills and provide valuable insights into recovery. This workshop will offer up to date research addressing the behavior while providing guidance in developing a behavioral plan through actionable strategies to help those impacted by digital hoarding.
OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: SCRUPULOSITY: Treating Religious, Moral, and Spiritual Manifestations of OCD
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
03/14/2025
$0.00
People who suffer with scrupulosity, as a subtype of OCD, can experience a range of challenges getting treatment, such as invalidation of actual spiritual and religious practice (or lack thereof) or becoming overly in obsessional loops and compulsive behaviors. Clinicians often must wade through poorer insight and additional resistance. SCRUPULOSITY: Treating Religious, Moral, and Spiritual Manifestations of OCD invites a brief but comprehensive study into the history of OCD itself—which involves clergy and church history, offering attendees evidence-based tools and resources for best results.
OCD & Anxiety Workshop: Comprehensive Treatment for BFRBs: Everything You Need to Know About Treating Hair Pulling and Skin Picking
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • 4.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 4.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 4.00 Psychologists
  • 4.00 Participation
03/21/2025
$0.00
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.
OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Treating Contamination OCD Using the Mastery Approach
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
04/11/2025
$0.00
Contamination OCD is a common but challenging-to-treat form of obsessive-compulsive disorder that represents roughly half of its cases. This program teaches clinicians how to treat contamination OCD using the functional-based Mastery treatment approach, a synthesis of exposure and response prevention (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and emerging literature on the use of judicious safety behaviors to improve functioning in cases where triggers do not directly habituate. This is a humane and well-tolerated approach that is well suited to contamination OCD cases such as disgust, neurodiversity and more, and has now been taught and implemented at major clinics nationwide. This presentation will teach clinicians how to use the Mastery approach, a functional approach to ERP designed for cases that do not respond to traditional ERP, such as disgust or other non-habituating triggers, neurodiversity, co-morbidities and more.
OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Medications Have Meaning: Strategies for Discussing OCD Medication with Clients to Engage Them in Treatment
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
06/20/2025
$0.00
Psychotherapists are powerful and often under-utilized allies in engaging our patients in effective use of psychiatric medication. Learn how effective communication between prescribers and psychotherapists can advance “treatment-resistant” patients forward while simultaneously enhancing clinician’s fulfillment in their work. Go beyond discussing neurotransmitters and into the heart of what taking psychiatric medication means to our patients. Address fears of dependency, loss of identity, weakness, and loss of control. Understand how attachment styles, medical trauma, and minority status predict medication side effects. Cultivate in patients an internal locus of control and self-advocacy skills to reduce side effect burden. Learn what information psychiatric medication prescribers really want to hear from psychotherapists and vice versa. Together, we are powerful allies in moving treatment forward. This presentation will help clinicians discuss medications in ways that empower their clients to more effectively engage in psychiatric treatment.