Taking Exposure and Response Prevention from the Treatment Manual to your Patients: A Guide to Application for all Mental Health Disciplines
Mini Workshop 13 - Taking Exposure and Response Prevention from the Treatment Manual to Your Patients: A Guide to Application for All Mental Health Disciplines
Saturday, November 19, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Location: Marquis Ballroom B, 9th Floor
Earn 1.5 CE Credit
Keywords: Anxiety, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), Stress Level of Familiarity: Basic to Moderate Recommended Readings: Abramowitz, J., Deacon, B., & Whiteside, S. (2012). Exposure Therapy for Anxiety: Principles and Practice. (2nd ed.) The Guilford Press. Hershfield, J. (2018). Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts. New Harbinger. Springer, K. & Tolin, D. (2020). The Big Book of Exposures: Innovative, Creative, and Effective CBT-Based Exposures for Treating Anxiety-Related Disorders. New Harbinger.
What we learn is graduate school and in our training experiences is invaluable to our development as psychologists, clinicians, and advisors. Over the course of our careers, not only do we hone our craft - we also gather stories and diagrams and slides and drawings and twists of phrases that can be so instrumental in getting our patients to finally understand what it is that we are trying to get across to them in a way they understand, and which motivate them to change. It can take years and numerous conference presentations to gather some of these great stories. But what if you got a whole collection of these gems in one talk? Come to this talk and steal everything! After 22 years of training students and therapists how to treat anxiety, trauma, and OCD, there are numerous stories, anecdotes, and graphics that can make CBT and ERP education simple and actually fun. Come to this talk and learn how to take all of the basics and make them exciting and something that is motivating to patients to do CBT and ERP. Get patients to stop shoulding all over the place, quit trying to live as if the rules of the world apply to them differently than they do to everyone else, and motivate people to accept doubt and uncertainty and be OK with it, all while having some fun and consolidating all that you have gained academically and making it presentable to a patient in a way that they will understand.
Outline: 1. Review the basics of CBT as taught in school. 2. Take those basics and translate them into language that makes sense to patients so that they are able to understand exactly why therapy will be happening the way that it is going to happen. 3. Discuss the common principles that are found in most patients that are presenting with anxiety and ways to challenge them with CBT and ERP. 4. Review the use of Safety Seeking Behaviors and the importance of educating patients to not use them. 5. Discuss why CBT and ERP might not work and how to recognize what it getting in the way of them working in sessions. 6. Share case vignettes where CBT and ERP were used successfully.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the session, the learner will be able to:
Develop a library of stories, graphs, and anecdotes to use to explain CBT and ERP to anxious patients.
Motivate patients to do ERP and troubleshoot any barriers to the use of response prevention both in and out of sessions.
Apply a list of cognitive distortions specific to anxiety that they can use in their CBT session.
Long-term Goal: Attendees will develop a comfort in presenting the basics of CBT and ERP to their patients in a language that is understandable and still reflects the science behind the work that is being done.
Long-term Goal: Attendees will recognize patterns in their anxious patients, leading to quicker resolution of problems that are being presented and results being achieved.