Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is marked by persistent unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors that can result in significant suffering. OCD is a complex disorder that can manifest as contamination obsessions with cleaning/washing rituals, obsessions concerning responsibility for harm with checking rituals, unacceptable obsessive thoughts with mental rituals, or symmetry/exactness obsessions with ordering/arranging rituals. This workshop will explore empirically supported approaches for the conceptualization and treatment of OCD and disorders that often co-occur with OCD.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain proper measures in the assessment of OCD and common differential diagnostic concerns with OCD
- Introduce participants to the underlying theory and the empirical support for ERP
- Provide instruction in the basic techniques of ERP to treat OCD in adults, adolescents and children
- Provide guidelines for how and when to modify ERP techniques to tailor the therapy to the individual (developmental issues, co-morbid conditions)
- Allow participants to practice the techniques of ERP by creating an exposure hierarchy for a mock client
- Include case vignettes and discussion of when and how to implement ERP
Course Presenters:
Paula R. Young, PhD, ACT
Clinical Director, FOCUS Programs– Rogers Behavioral Health-Chicago
Dr. Young is a licensed clinical psychologist who directs the adolescent and adult FOCUS mood disorders partial hospital programs at Rogers Behavioral Health–Chicago. She is also Director of the Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.
Dr. Young holds joint faculty appointments in the Psychology Department and the Counseling Program at Northwestern University, where she has taught and supervised graduate-level trainees in CBT and exposure-based therapies for anxiety disorders for over 10 years.
She earned her PhD from the Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. As an intern at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, she received specialized training in exposure and response prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Dr.s Edna Foa and Martin Franklin. Dr. Young is Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a Fellow in the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She has over 25 years of experience using ERP to help patients with OCD.
Meg Reuland, PhD
Clinical Supervisor in Child and Adolescent Programs - Rogers Behavioral Health-Skokie
Dr. Reuland holds a Bachelor's degree from Yale University, a Master's degree in Human Development from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of Virginia. She is a former Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and she completed internship at Boston Children's Hospital and post-doctoral fellowship at Judge Baker Children's Center.
Dr. Reuland has co-authored several articles on therapeutic interventions for anxiety and ADHD. She designed and tested an online intervention that showed promise in alleviating social anxiety in early adolescents. A component of this intervention aimed to shape parent beliefs that may maintain or contribute to youth anxiety. Dr. Reuland also collaborated with colleagues to test a novel summer camp-based intervention for youth with ADHD that was successful in improving the social problems of some youth.
Dr. Reuland has received specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including the well-validated Modular Approach to Therapy for Children (MATCH) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Dr. Reuland has also received clinical training at an inpatient psychiatric unit for adolescents, a therapeutic summer camp for children with ADHD, a specialty assessment and treatment clinic for children with ADHD, an adult outpatient clinic, and conducted several intervention protocols for research studies. She also worked as a special education teacher prior to studying psychology, and enjoys drawing on her clinical and teaching background to support the professional development of clinicians at Rogers.
Dr. Reuland has presented her research at national conferences and is a member of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapist (ABCT), as well as APA Divisions 53 (Child Psychology).
Location:
Skokie Public Library
5215 Oakton St
Skokie, IL 60077
Time:
9:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
945am-12:45pm: Presentation
12:45pm-1:30pm: Lunch included
1:30pm-5pm: Presentation
Audience:
· Professional Counselors
· Social Workers
· Substance Abuse Counselors
· Marriage and Family Therapists
· Psychologists
Continuation Education Credit for Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Clinical Psychologists.
This educational offering has been approved for 6 Continuing Education hours by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
