About this webinar
Date: September 13, 2024
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
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
Continuing Education (CE) Information: SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. Full-day programs equal six CE hours; half-day programs equal three CE hours; for less than half-day programs, one hour of programming equals one CE hour. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.
Registration closes
If registration has closed and you're still interested in joining this course, please contact Mary Anne at mvanrooyen@sickkidscmhlearning.ca
Facilitator
Daniel Chorney
Accessibility
We strive to ensure our online learning programs are easy for everyone, everywhere. If you have any accessibility requirements (closed-captioning, ASL interpreters, advanced access to program materials), please email Mary Anne Van Rooyen at mvanrooyen@sickkidscmhlearning.ca to let us know how we can best support your learning experience.
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