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Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and exposure and response prevention for paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Sharpen your skills to treat paediatric OCD effectively using practical CBT and ERP tools to confidently assess and support children and adolescents.
This webinar provides an in-depth exploration of evidence-based approaches for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents. This training is designed for clinicians seeking to enhance their knowledge and clinical skills in exposure and response prevention (ERP), the gold-standard treatment for paediatric OCD. Through a combination of didactic teaching, case discussions, and Q&A, participants will learn how to effectively assess, conceptualize, and treat paediatric OCD using flexible, evidence-based strategies.
Learning objectives:
- Comprehend the core features and assessment of paediatric OCD.
- Define OCD and distinguish it from other anxiety-related disorders.
- Recognize the primary symptom clusters and how they manifest in children.
- Effectively apply exposure and response prevention (ERP).
- Design individualized exposure hierarchies based on specific OCD symptoms.
- Implement strategies to optimize inhibitory learning, focusing on distress tolerance rather than habituation.
- Address common challenges in paediatric OCD treatment.
- Identify and manage family accommodation when problematic.
- Navigate treatment resistance, including motivational strategies to engage children.
- Address ethical concerns surrounding distress tolerance and exposure therapy.
- Manage varieties of OCD presentations.
- Develop targeted interventions for scrupulosity, pedophilia-themed OCD, harm-related obsessions, and contamination fears.
- Apply creative, developmentally appropriate strategies to help children externalize and reframe intrusive thoughts.
- Enhance treatment outcomes and prevent relapse.
- Teach children and families how to recognize and manage OCD setbacks.
- Using booster sessions and exposure generalization strategies.
Join this webinar and strengthen your approach to helping children and adolescents with OCD.
Please note: This webinar is module 3 of our Certificate in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for children level 2: Clinical applications to specific cases program. However, participants can also register for it as a stand-alone training to enhance their therapeutic skills.
The Canadian Psychological Association recognizes this training for 6 hours of continuing education. These hours are also applicable towards the required 40 hours of formal training in CBT as part of the CACBT certification process.
