On-Demand: Don’t Take the Bait: How to Use Functional Analysis for Targeted OCD Treatment - 4 CEUs

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• CE Hours Included: 4 Core (please see below for more information)
• Format: On-Demand Webinar (“Asynchronous”) ~ At your leisure to be viewed at your own pace. You may pause, rewind, and fast-forward at any point during the videos. You are in complete control of how you view this workshop. It also comes with a PowerPoint handout and multiple handouts & forms. There is a quiz at the end to ensure viewing and is required by all CE approval organizations.
• Investment: $109 (provides lifetime access!)
• Presented by: Michael Stier, LCPC (see bio below)
• Instruction Level: Intermediate
• Target Audience: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Other Mental Health Professionals
  
• This workshop is not yet available; by pre-registering, you will receive immediate access when it becomes available in November.

Learning Objectives:

After completing this workshop in its entirety, you will be able to:

• Assess the mechanisms of a functional analysis, including triggers, obsessions, compulsions, and feared outcomes.
• Compare obsessional subtypes and symptom domains relevant to OCD.
• Critique cognitive belief domains that maintain OCD symptoms.
• Demonstrate how to formulate a functional analysis during a clinical interview.
• Apply exposure-based interventions informed by the functional analysis.
• Evaluate distinctions between obsessions and rumination.
• Design ERP strategies using situational, imaginal, and interoceptive exposure.
• Utilize case examples to practice assessing and treating OCD in session.

Workshop Description:

Many clinicians get lost in the content of their client’s OCD — but that’s exactly what OCD wants! In this dynamic and practical workshop, attendees will learn to shift their focus from symptom content to the underlying structure of OCD through the use of functional analysis.

This workshop will break down the essential skills of assessing and treating OCD using case examples and applied learning. Through targeted ERP strategies rooted in functional analysis, participants will leave with tools to confidently treat a wide variety of OCD subtypes while avoiding common clinical traps.

Workshop Agenda:

• Foundations of Functional Analysis (30 min)
  • What is functional analysis, and why does it matter
  • Overview of OCD structure vs content
• Identifying and Assessing OCD Symptoms (30 min)
  • Tools: YBOCS, OBQ-44, OCI
  • Clinical interviewing for triggers, obsessions, compulsions
• Obsessional Domains and Beliefs (30 min)
  • OCD subtypes: Harm, contamination, sexual, scrupulosity, etc.
  • Belief domains: responsibility, overestimation of threat, thought-action fusion
• Building a Functional Analysis (30 min)
  • Downward arrow technique
  • Mapping triggers to compulsions and feared consequences
  • Clinical case demonstration
• Obsession vs Rumination (15 min)
  • Differentiating automatic vs goal-directed thinking
  • Treatment implications
• Response Prevention and Ritual Mapping (30 min)
  • Types of compulsions (overt, covert, mental, avoidance)
  • Ritual interference and delay techniques
• Designing Exposures Based on Functional Analysis (30 min)
  • Situational, imaginal, and interoceptive exposure
  • Fear scripts and graded exposure tasks
• Case Examples (30 min)
  • Case Vignettes
  • Common therapist mistakes and how to avoid them

Presented by: Michael Stier, LCPC

Michael is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois, an LPC in Georgia and Missouri, and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) specializing in OCD and related disorders. He currently serves as the Director of Education and Training at Anxiety Specialists of Atlanta, overseeing evidence-based treatment interventions. Michael is also a Behavioral Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) faculty member through the IOCDF. He co-authored The Complete Guide to Overcoming Health Anxiety and developed the associated Overcoming Health Anxiety website, which provides evidence-based information and support for individuals with health anxiety, as well as their families and loved ones.

4 "Asynchronous" Core CEs Included - Details by License Type Below:

• PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
• COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Please click here for more detailed information.
• SOCIAL WORKERS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW). If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.
• MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (GAMFT). If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.

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