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On Demand OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Don’t Try Harder, Try Different: Motivating OCD Patients
This presentation was originally reviewed on April 10, 2023, and broadcast live online on April 7, 2023, from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET.
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You likely know about CBT and ERP for anxiety and OCD. But, knowing it and explaining it are two different things. Plus, you also have to motivate people to do the things that are difficult. If people with anxiety are guilty of anything, it is trying harder at things that are already not working, so sometimes instead of trying harder, we have to do something else - we have to try something different. If trying harder made things work better, then our patients would not need us. But anxiety and OCD send a false message and people fall for it all of the time. We are here to change that. To meld these two concepts together, we have to motivate people to do the things that are difficult and have them look forward to the experience. In this talk we will see how to motivate people to do the difficult stuff, while at the same time helping them to recognize where they get stuck and why so they can make the changes they need quickly and efficiently and not have to rely on us to be the agents of change - they can be their own agents.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and other mental health professionals.
Learning Objectives
After this lecture, registrants will be able to:
- Describe 7 common themes in the presentation of anxiety-based disorders.
- Define the 5 common Safety Seeking Behaviors that actually help to maintain anxiety in the long term, even if they seem to be helpful in the moment.
- Apply the use of the 7 common themes and the recognition of the 5 common Safety Seeking Behaviors to their introduction of CBT and ERP to their patients.
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About the speaker
Dr. Patrick B. McGrath serves as the Chief Clinical Officer for NOCD, an app-based platform for the treatment of OCD, leading their teletherapy services across the world. He is also a Lead Psychologist at Ascension Illinois Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, where he opened Intensive Outpatient, Partial Hospital, and Residential Treatment Programs for Anxiety Disorders, School Refusal, and OCD. He is also a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Boards of the International OCD Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Past-President of OCD Midwest. He authored “Don’t Try Harder, Try Different,” and “The OCD Answer Book.” He was also featured on Discovery Health Channel’s, “Panic” and on three episodes of TLC’s, “Hoarding; Buried Alive.”
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Patrick B. McGrath, PhD, reports that he has no relationships 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. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All conflicts have been mitigated through review.
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OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Don’t Try Harder, Try Different: Motivating OCD Patients
Patrick B. McGrath, PhD
Chief Clinical Officer, NOCD
Lead Psychologist
Ascension Illinois Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital
Chicago, IL
Originally reviewed April 10, 2023.
Originally broadcast live April 7, 2023, from 1:00- 2:30 PM ET.
Enduring Activity Credit Expiration Date: May 12, 2025.
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