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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.
Grand Rounds: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Professionals
  • Basic Science
  • Conceptual Psych
  • Grand Rounds
  • 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
03/18/2025
$0.00
The arts and humanities play a fundamental role in health professions education. Integrating A&H pedagogical methods into health professions education supports clinical skill mastery, perspective taking, personal insight, and social advocacy. This highly interactive talk will focus on Visual Thinking Strategies, an evidence-based arts and humanities method that enhances individual attributes crucial to clinical care, including implicit bias awareness and critical thinking, while contributing to inclusive learning spaces by minimizing pre-existing hierarchies and fostering team cohesion. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a Visual Thinking Strategies discussion and reflect together on how Visual Thinking Strategies supports the development of clinically relevant attributes, as well as facilitative teaching and leadership skills, informed by an understanding of the method’s key elements.
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.
Professional Workshop Series: Using the JUST Practice Framework to Inform Social Work Practice with Black Fathers
  • Minority Health
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 Participation
03/28/2025
$0.00
Black fathers often face systemic barriers that limit their engagement with health care and social services, including biases in practice, restrictive policies, and a lack of culturally responsive interventions. These challenges contribute to disparities in paternal involvement and well-being. The Just Practice Framework offers a justice-centered, critically reflective approach to social work, helping clinicians recognize and address these structural inequities. This presentation will equip attendees with concrete strategies to challenge biases, advocate for policy changes, and implement inclusive, strengths-based interventions that enhance engagement with Black fathers. By attending, clinicians will gain tools to shift their practice toward more equitable and effective support for Black fathers and their families.
Grand Rounds: Protest Psychosis: Race, Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
  • Grand Rounds
  • Mood Disorders
  • 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
04/04/2025
$0.00
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.
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.
Professional Workshop Series: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEANING: How Individual Worldviews Are Constructed in Relationships
  • Basic Science
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
04/25/2025
$0.00
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.
Professional Workshop Series: Advancing Lived Experience Integration and Leadership in Mental Health Services Design, Implementation and Research
  • Basic Science
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
05/09/2025
$0.00
This workshop explores best practices for integrating lived experience into all facets of mental health service planning, design, implementation, and evaluation, with a particular emphasis on serious mental illness (SMI). Participants will gain practical strategies to ensure meaningful inclusion, moving beyond tokenism to foster true collaboration. The presenter will provide actionable insights for clinicians and administrators, equipping them with concrete methods to incorporate lived experience perspectives in ways that enhance service effectiveness and equity.
Grand Rounds: The Value of Person-Centered Cultural Assessment in Clinical Practice
  • Grand Rounds
  • Minority Health
  • 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
05/14/2025
$0.00
Without a person-center assessment of the relevant cultural aspects of the person’s identity, illness representations, treatment expectations, and social-structural impacts on vulnerabilities and resources, mental health practice often lacks the information to provide effective treatment. The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is a protocol for asking individuals seeking mental health care about their and their families/friends’ views of their situation, cultural identity, past experiences of help seeking, and expectations for future care. It can be used as a culturally sensitive method to engage care recipients in mental health services and guide a comprehensive evaluation. This presentation discusses the development and content of the DSM-5-TR core CFI and briefly summarizes research on its 4 uses: data gathering, therapeutic effect, training, and systemic care. At the conclusion of the presentation, the participant will be able to understand the value of a cultural assessment in routine mental health care and incorporate a cultural assessment in their practice to improve engagement, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
Professional Workshop Series: Beyond DEI Creating a Culture of Belonging
  • Minority Health
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 Participation
05/30/2025
$0.00
How do we create spaces that go beyond DEI and focus on true belonging in our organizations and communities? This workshop explores the limitations of traditional DEI efforts and provides practical strategies for cultivating environments where individuals feel valued, heard, and empowered. through reflective exercises and actionable tools, participants will learn how to integrate belonging into their practice, policy-making, and client interactions. Participants will explore the key elements of belonging, identify barriers to inclusion, and learn actionable strategies to create a workplace culture that supports psychological safety, collaboration, and engagement. Attendees will leave with practical tools to cultivate a workplace where everyone can thrive.

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