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Mini Workshop

Treatment - CBT

Ninety (90) Minutes of Stuff to Steal and Use to Introduce ERP Therapy to your Patients: A Guide for Graduates and New Therapists.

Mini Workshop 17 - Ninety (90) Minutes of Stuff to Steal and Use to Introduce ERP Therapy to Your Patients: a Guide for Graduates and New Therapists

Saturday, November 16, 2024
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Location: Grand Ballroom B, Level 5, Downtown Marriott
Earn 1.5 Credit
Keywords: Exposure, Transdiagnostic, Career Development
Level of Familiarity: Basic to Moderate
Recommended Readings: McKay D, Minaya C, Storch EA. Conducting exposure and response prevention treatment for contamination fears during COVID-19: The behavioral immune system impact on clinician approaches to treatment. J Anxiety Disord. 2020 Aug;74:102270. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102270. Epub 2020 Jul 1. PMID: 32650220; PMCID: PMC7328595.
,   Hezel DM, Simpson HB. Exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A review and new directions. Indian J Psychiatry. 2019 Jan;61(Suppl 1):S85-S92. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_516_18. PMID: 30745681; PMCID: PMC6343408.
,   Law C, Boisseau CL. Exposure and Response Prevention in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Current Perspectives. Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2019 Dec 24;12:1167-1174. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S211117. PMID: 31920413; PMCID: PMC6935308.
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So, you are new to therapy, or you are just getting out of graduate school, or you want a refresh.
This talk is designed for you to 1. Steal all sorts of examples and diagrams and drawings that you
can use to explain treatment to your patients, 2. Recognize and challenge safety seeking behaviors,
and 3. Explain CBT and ERP to anyone in a way that will excite them to do treatment. Only an Irish
person can tell you to go to Hell and make you look forward to the journey, and only a great therapist
can motivate you to do the things that you ultimately fear with a smile on your face. Have trouble
motivating people to face their fears? Attend this talk. Subtle Safety Seeking Behaviors playing a
role in your patients not getting better? Attend this talk. Want to learn how to apply some fun and
humor into therapy in a way that motivates your patients? Then do not attend this talk...just kidding,
totally attend this talk. Last year, the room filled up early and people were sitting on the floor, so if
you like chairs, arrive early for this talk. But in all seriousness, if you want to work on your skills at
presenting CBT and ERP to your patients, and do it in a way that is motivating, learn from my
triumphs and mistakes, and join me for 90 minutes of fun learning.

Outline:
The case for Evidence based treatment
How CBT works (explainable to a Patient)
A CBT Model (explainable to a Patient)
Making the B of CBT important - ERP
Explaining ERP to Patients and not scaring them away
Basic fears addressed in therapy
Safety Seeking Behavior role in treatment interference
Using case examples and stories to get people to do ERP

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
  1. Apply basic theory behind ERP to actual, real world cases.
  2. Explain why ERP works or may not so they will not make the same mistakes that seasoned professionals made when they were first starting out using ERP.
  3. Prepare their patients to do ERP in a way they will actually look forward to doing ERP.
  4. Long-term Goal: consider the implementation of clinical pathways into their therapeutic context for optimizing CBT dissemination.