Webinar details: March 25, 2025 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Daniel Chorney, PhD.
This training is suitable for:
Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers
Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors
Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers
Level of training: Introductory
Client age category: For professionals who work with any age groups
Description: Participants in this training will learn practical, evidence-based methods for using exposure and response prevention (EX/RP) with children and adolescents. The training is intended to focus on treatment and strategies in working with families presenting with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), so some familiarity or prior history of working with paediatric OCD is encouraged but not mandatory.
Participants will learn how to construct an effective hierarchy for different presentations of OCD, along with strategies that help children and their families work on these hierarchies when challenges are encountered along the way. Examples of how families accommodate OCD and how to change/prevent this will be discussed, along with ways children can “break the rules of OCD” and learn simplified ways of “bossing back” their OCD in a developmentally sensitive manner. Time will also be devoted to discussion of what it is like to be a treatment provider for OCD, and some of the challenges and mistakes we can make along the way when working with this challenging disorder.
Participants are encouraged to bring challenging presentations to the workshop for discussion on how to implement these strategies towards their own cases.
Learning objectives:
- How to construct a hierarchy/stepladder for child/teen OCD.
- CBT strategies to help make EX/RP more effective.
- How to use EX/RP to treat multiple different presentations of OCD.
