Pre-Conference Training Sessions (PCTS)

Each year, prior to the start of the Annual OCD Conference's full program, the IOCDF offers specialized trainings for those professionals who wish to gain greater insight into working with OCD and related disorders. On Thursday, July 18, 2019 before the 26th Annual OCD Conference, we will be offering two Pre-Conference Training Sessions (PCTS). These trainings come at an additional cost and more details on each can be found below:

Exploring Clinical and Community Interventions for Hoarding and Cluttering

Randy O. Frost, PhD ; Gail Steketee, PhD , LICSW; Jordana Muroff, PhD , LICSW; Christiana Bratiotis, PhD , LICSW; Lee Shuer, CPS; Becca Belofsky Shuer; Jesse Edsell-Vetter; Marnie Cooper

Thursday, July 18th  | 9:00am – 5:00pm

This full-day program will be aimed at a broad audience of professionals and peers with various roles and responsibilities related to hoarding disorder. The first section will cover basic information about the disorder and its treatment. Next on the agenda will be training in skills necessary for intervention, including sorting and discarding, organizing, and resisting acquisition. Just after lunch will be a presentation on the role of peers and family supports in hoarding disorder. After that will be a video-based presentation of experiments with discarding designed to examine attachments to possessions. The day will end with a one-hour panel including the pre-conference faculty responding to audience questions.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to recognize and describe hoarding disorder
2. Participants will be develop skills to treat hoarding problems, specifically, controlling acquisition, organizing, room mapping and sorting/discarding
3. Participants will be able to identify peer and family support options for clutter problems
4. Participants will be able to describe a community task force approach to hoarding and clutter

Schedule

• 9:00am – 10:30am – Hoarding Disorder 101 (Steketee & Frost)
• 10:30am – 10:45am – BREAK
• 10:45am – 12:30pm – Skill-Building Stations: Acquisition, Organizing, Sorting/Discarding (Muroff, Winsor, Edsell-Vetter, & Bratiotis)
• 12:30pm – 1:30pm – LUNCH (on own)
• 1:30pm – 2:30pm – Peer and Family Supports (Shuer & Belofsky-Shuer)
• 2:30pm – 2:45pm – BREAK
• 2:45pm – 3:45pm – Assessing the Value of Possessions - Video Demonstrations (Frost & Cooper)
• 3:45pm – 4:00pm – BREAK
• 4:00pm – 5:00pm – Panel Discussion (Moderator: Gail Steketee, PhD , LCSW; Panel: Lee Shuer, CPS, Becca Belofsky Shuer, Jordana Muroff, PhD , LICSW, Jesse Edsell-Vetter)

*** PLEASE NOTE: Professionals who work with HD are welcome to attend the full day of training.  Peer responders are invited to attend the second half, beginning at 1:30pm.

Conceptualizing and Treating OCD in Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Robert Hudak, MD; Jonathan Hoffman, PhD , ABPP; Fred Penzel, PhD , ABPP; & Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP (Moderator)

Thursday, July 18th  | 1:00pm – 6:00pm

OCD occurring in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) entails many challenges and nuances, especially given the heterogeneity of these clinical presentations. Diagnostic issues are fraught with difficulty as many of the characteristics of ASD can look like OCD symptoms, with the reverse being true as well. Becoming familiar with ASD symptomology as well as how OCD presents differently in individuals with OCD is vital for designing effective clinical interventions. Individuals with ASD can indeed benefit from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), including E/RP, but standard methodologies must be modified appropriately. Failure to tailor OCD treatment for ASD increases the probability of treatment refusal or failure. To help clinicians achieve the best possible outcomes for their patients, this seminar aims to impart a comprehensive model for understanding and addressing OCD in those with ASD— which includes family therapy, as well as community education and outreach.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify the clinical complexities inherent in diagnosing and conceptualizing OCD occurring in those with ASD, especially in regard to how these complexities impact case conceptualization and both pharmacological and CBT interventions.
2. Attendees will demonstrate how to modify assessments and CBT for OCD presenting in youth with ASD, and explain how this differs from adult presentations.
3. Participants will apply a comprehensive model for understanding and addressing OCD symptomatology occurring in those with ASD, and the “how-to’s” of designing and implementing effective treatment protocols.

Schedule

1:00pm – 2:00pm ~ Is it ASD, OCD, or both? (Hudak)
2:00pm – 3:15pm ~ OCD in Youth with ASD: Special Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment (Hoffman)
3:15pm – 3:45pm ~ Break
3:45pm – 5:00pm ~ Comprehensive Treatment of Autism Related OCD and How to do it (Penzel)
5:00pm – 6:00pm ~ Full panel Q & A and case discussion (Sachs)