OVERVIEW

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Abramowitz - Marriage & Family Therapy is organized by Homestead Schools, Inc. This course has been approved for a maximum of 4 Contact Hour.

Course Description:
Based on decades of scientific research and clinical refinement, cognitive-behavioral therapy using the techniques of exposure and response prevention has helped countless individuals with OCD overcome debilitating symptoms and live fuller, more satisfying lives.

From leading expert Jonathan S. Abramowitz, this volume opens with an overview of the diagnosis and assessment of OCD and delineates a research-based conceptual framework for understanding the development, maintenance, and treatment of obsessions and compulsions. The core of the book is highly practical treatment manual packed with helpful clinical pearls, therapist-patient dialogues, illustrative case vignettes, and sample forms and handouts. Readers are equipped with skills for tailoring exposure and response prevention techniques for patients with different types of OCD symptoms, including washing, checking, ordering, obsessions and mental rituals. The book, which also addresses common obstacles in treating individuals with OCD, represents an essential resource for anyone providing services for individuals with anxiety disorders.

Learning Objectives:
• State the term that was used previously to identify OCD.
• State how the American Psychiatric Association defines OCD.
• Define compulsions.
• List several common obsessions.
• Compare how men and women are affected by OCD.
• Describe how OCD symptoms develop.
• Define obsessions.
• Compare impulsive and compulsive rituals.
• Describe the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
• Describe the Beck Anxiety Inventory.
• Discuss the findings of positron emission tomography studies in patients with OCD.
• Define intrusive thoughts according to the cognitive-behavioral model.
• Define the distal cause of OCD.
• List the essential features of the functional aspects emphasized in the cognitive-behavioral model.
• List the advantages of medication for OCD.
• State the basis for CBT in OCD.
• Describe exposure and response prevention.
• State how the elderly respond to medications for OCD.
• State the response of OCD patients with depression and anxiety to CBT.
• List several recommendations that should be conveyed to the patient at the beginning of CBT.
• List the fears of experiencing long-term anxiety.
• State the points that convey to the patient the symptoms of OCD that can be broken with practice.
• State the aim of treatment to eliminate obsessional thoughts.
• List the two levels of dysfunctional thinking according to Beck’s Cognitive Model.
• Describe safety-seeking behaviors in maintaining OCD.
• Define habituation.
• State how collaborative empiricism is promoted.
• Define the fear hierarchy.
• Describe the SUDS scale.
• Describe the three types of imaginal exposure.
• Define amplifying.
• List symptoms of incompleteness.
• Discuss why the most feared hierarchy items should be conducted during the middle third of the treatment program.
• State when fear reduction is most complete and durable.
• List examples of “normal” behavior after treatment.
• List 3 indicators of change during exposure-based treatment of fear according to Foa and Kozak.
• State the drop out and ineffectiveness statistics of CBT for patients with OCD.
• List negative reactions to the CBT model.
• Describe conflict resolution when the patient argues.
• Describe what to do when a patient becomes extremely anxious or emotional during an exposure.
• Discuss the three possibilities when a patient reports little or no distress during exposure.