OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions III & IV

OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions III & IV is organized by Sheppard Pratt and will be held on Apr 23, 2021.

Credits:
• 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
• 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
• 3.00 ANCC Contact hours for Nurses
• 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
• 3.00 CEU Hours for Psychologists
• 3.00 Participation

This series offers 9.0 contact hours for attendance at all three dates.

Physician Statement: Sheppard Pratt is accredited by The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.  Sheppard Pratt designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurse Statement: Sheppard Pratt is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.  Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. This activity provides 3.0 contact hours for nurses.

Psychologist Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing education. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this continuing education activity.  Sheppard Pratt designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.0 contact hours for Psychologists.

Social Worker Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners of Maryland to offer continuing education for Social Workers.  Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this continuing education activity. This activity is approved for 3.0 contact hours in Category I credits for Social Workers.

Counselor Statement:  Sheppard Pratt has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5098.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Sheppard Pratt is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.  This activity is available for 3.0 NBCC clock hours.

Description:
SESSION III: Treating Pediatric OCD
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in children and teens can lead to serious social, behavioral, and learning problems. Due to a wide range of symptoms, OCD can frequently be both baffling and complex for clinicians to assess and treat. Yet, with early recognition and effective exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), up to 80% of those affected can successfully manage OCD. Unfortunately, many do not receive CBT, due in part to a shortage of clinicians with expertise in treating OCD in children and teens. Moreover, the inherently counterintuitive nature of exposure may make children and teens reluctant to engage in treatment.

Learning Objectives:
After this lecture, registrants will be able to:
• Recognize reluctance in children, teens, and therapists and the importance of addressing it prior to treatment.
• Describe a systematic and proactive clinical approach to cultivate treatment readiness.
• Explain a child-friendly approach to exposure-based treatment OCD.

SESSION IV: Working With Families And Treatment Refusal
Families are the forgotten victims of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), especially when the individual affected is unwilling to seek help. Clinicians typically have little to offer these families, believing nothing can be done until the individual’s motivation for treatment changes. This presentation will describe Family Well-Being Consultation (FWBC), an approach developed to help families of individuals with OCD who do not seek recovery. Participants in this workshop will learn the family interaction patterns typically surrounding treatment-refusal, methods for assessing family interaction patterns, and a treatment model developed to improve family functioning and promote treatment-seeking. The presentation will use a combination of lecture, slides, demonstrations, and case discussion.

Learning Objectives
After this lecture, registrants will be able to:
• Define the concept of recovery avoidance.
• Describe two types of family responses that reinforce recovery avoidance.
• Articulate the critical concepts and assumptions of Family Well-Being Consultation.