Professional Development
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR APPROACH TO CONCEPTUALIZATION AND TREATMENT When: November, 19, 2010, 12:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Where: Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave, First Floor Meeting Room, Rockville, MD 20850 Program Description: This presentation reviews the diagnostic criteria and clinical presentations of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. As OCD can have a wide range of manifestations, it is important for clinicians to properly assess for the underlying themes so that an effective treatment can be developed. Successful treatment relies on effective interventions and creative clinicians. Interventions and treatments for clients with OCD involve cognitive behavioral strategies including hierarchy development and Exposure and Response Prevention. Also addressed will be the importance and rationale of the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) as part of hierarchy development and E/RP. Program Objectives Participants will: • Become familiar with symptom...