Treating OCD during COVID-19: Unique Challenges and Opportunities

This is the first in a series of three live, interactive webinar presentations (90 minutes each) which will focus on how best to deliver treatment of OCD across the developmental spectrum during the COVID-19 pandemic. Designed for intermediate and advanced practitioners already familiar with cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological interventions for OCD, this presentation will involve a review of CBT theory, implementation of standard exposure plus response prevention (ERP), and how treatment should be adapted to the societal and personal challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Particular...Read more attention will be paid to adaptations needed in the treatment of children and adolescents, especially regarding how best to involve parents in treatment and reduce accommodation without losing sight of the importance of encouraging and fostering the child or adolescent’s active engagement in ERP. Ample time will be allotted at the end of the presentation to address audience questions.
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Learning Objectives

  • Present at least two components of the empirically grounded theoretical framework for ERP that can be readily understood by patients and families;
  • Identify at least two adaptations to the delivery of ERP for OCD across the developmental spectrum, including navigating challenges inherent in delivering this empirically supported form of treatment via teletherapy;
  • Identify at least two components of the unique role in treatment played by parents of youth with OCD while simultaneously encouraging and promoting the patient’s own active engagement in ERP.

Learning Levels

  • Intermediate to Advanced

Thursday, April 09, 2020

Live Interactive Webinar

01:00 PM EDT - 02:30 PM EDT

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EARN 1.5 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Martin E. Franklin, PhD

Martin E. Franklin, PhD

Executive Clinical Director of OCD and Anxiety Services
Dr. Franklin is an internationally renowned expert on OCD, OC-spectrum disorders, and body-focused repetitive behaviors, as well as the study and treatment of anxiety and related conditions. In addition to providing oversight of OCD and Anxiety programs system-wide for Rogers Behavioral Health, Dr. Franklin is an associate professor emeritus of clinical psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

CE Information - Earn 1.5 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association
Rogers Behavioral Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rogers Behavioral Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Rogers Behavioral Health designates this live program for X continuing education credits; no partial credits will be awarded.
Association of Social Work Boards
Rogers Behavioral Health, provider number 1101, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory board have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Rogers Behavioral Health maintains responsibility for this course. Approval period: October 18, 2023 – October 18, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive X clinical continuing education credits.
National Board for Certified Counselors
Rogers Behavioral Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6192. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Rogers Behavioral Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. X instructional clock hours will be awarded.
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Rogers Behavioral Health will issue a certificate of attendance for your participation in this activity.

CE Process Info

A Contuing Education Certificate for this program will be obtained usingthe website CE Go. After the event, you will receive an email with a link to CE Go. This link will be emailed to the account you used to register for this event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go website, you will be able to:

  • Complete the mandatory evaluation form
  • Download your CE Certificate in PDF form

Please Note: To receive CE credit, you must be logged into the webinar for the entire program; partial credit is not available.


AGENDA

1 pm Welcome: housekeeping and speaker introduction(s)

1:05 pm ERP across the developmental spectrum

                    • Theoretical rationale and empirical foundation

                    • Essential components of treatment

1:20 pm Modifications to ERP in light of COVID

                   • Teletherapy

                   • Reduction of ERP opportunities

                   • Creative use of other opportunities

                   • The special case of ERP pertaining to contamination 

1:40 pm Adaptations of ERP for use with youth and families

                   • Adjusting critical treatment elements (psychoeducation, hierarchy-building, exposure activities) to reflect 

                        environmental changes associated with COVID and quarantine

                   • Balancing parents facilitation/involvement and accommodation

                   • Reward/contingency systems modifications during stay-at-home orders

2:15 pm Moderated Q&A

2:25 pm Where to get additional information on this topic