About the Event
Cognitive Behavior Institute is excited to welcome Brittany Goff, LCSW-C, for a live interactive webinar on: Treating OCD from a Neuroaffirming Perspective using Inference-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dates/Times:
October 3rd, 2024 12:00pm-5:00pm EST
October 4th, 2024 12:00pm-5:00pm EST
Location: online via zoom webinar
*Participants will not have access to their camera/microphone
Cost: $99.99
Level: Introductory
Credit Hours: 8.5 clinical CEs
Description:
Inference-based CBT (I-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for OCD that does not involve exposures. Rather than taking a behavioral approach to treating OCD, I-CBT is an upstream modality that targets the obsession, rather than the compulsion (Aardema 2023). Once clients are finished with the treatment, they are no longer afraid of their obsessions, therefore there is no need to purposely provoke anxiety for them to get well from OCD. The person often resumes back to their life before their compulsions because they have an understanding on how their OCD stories are constructed based on their own experiences throughout life.
This training will give clinicians an introductory knowledge of I-CBT, and they will then be able to provide I-CBT treatment for clients with OCD.
Agenda:
Day 1
Time |
Content Covered |
| 12pm-12:50pm | Module 1: Introduction & Course Overview, Theory & Inferential Confusion |
| 12:50pm-1pm | Break |
| 1pm-1:50 |
Module 2: The Logic behind OCD |
| 1:50pm-2pm | Break |
| 2pm-2:50pm | Module 3: The Obsessional Story |
| 2:50pm-3:00pm | Break |
| 3PM-3:50pm | Module 3.5: Bridging |
3:50pm-4:00pm |
Break |
| 4PM-5pm | Module 4: The Feared Self |
Day 2
Time |
Content Covered |
| 12-12:50 | Module 5 & 6: OCD is Imaginary & Irrelevant |
| 12:50pm-1pm | Break |
| 1pm-1:50 | Module 7: The Bubble |
| 1:50pm-2pm | Break |
| 2pm-2:50pm | Module 8: Reality Sensing & Module 9: The Alternative Story |
| 2:50pm-3:00pm | Break |
| 3PM-3:50 | Module 10: The Tricks & Cheats of OCD |
3:50pm-4:00pm |
Break |
| 4PM-5pm | Module 11: The Real Self & Module 12: Relapse Prevention |
Learning Objectives:
Participants will recognize how to apply I-CBT to working with OCD.
Participants will identify how to help clients identify their logic behind their OCD
Participants will identify how they can apply this inferential confusion in a neuro-affirming way for patients that have co-occurring disorders such as ADHD, Autism, and Social anxiety.
Participants will distinguish the different Vulnerable Self Themes/Feared Self.
Participants will distinguish how to recognize OCD doubt from real doubt
Participants will discover how a person's Vulnerable Self Theme will dictate what type of obsessions they will have.
Participants will associate the knowledge of I-CBT with real-life case studies, enhancing their practical application skills.
Participants will identify at least 3 tricks and cheats of OCD
Instructor Bio:
Brittany is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in Obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders. Brittany received her Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Social Work from Salisbury University. Brittany is an experienced practitioner and author in Inference-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), having authored the first published I-CBT workbook. Brittany has created an entire I-CBT training that she has taught to hundreds of clinicians. She receives regular consultations from the Founder of I-CBT, Fred Aardema. She also participates in frequent learning opportunities around I-CBT such as facilitating skills groups to help clinicians implement different techniques they can use with their clients when utilizing I-CBT. Course bibliography:
Adapted by Brittany Goff from: O'Connor, K., & Aardema, F. (2012). Clinician's handbook for obsessive compulsive disorder: Inference-based therapy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Baraby, L-P., Bourguignon, L., & Aardema, F. (2022). The relevance of dysfunctional reasoning to OCD and its treatment: Further evidence for inferential confusion utilizing a new task-based measure. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 101728.
Baraby, L-P., Wong, S.F., Radomsky, A.S., & Aardema, F. (2021). Dysfunctional reasoning processes and their relationship with feared self-perceptions and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: An experimental investigation with a new task-based measure of inferential confusion. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 28, 100593.
Lorens-Aguilar, S, Arnáez, S., Aardema, F., & Garcia-Soriano, G. (2022). The relationship between obsessions and the self: Feared and actual self-descriptions in a clinical OCD sample. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 29, 642-651.
Approvals:
Cognitive Behavior Institute, #1771, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 06/30/2022-06/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 8.5 clinical continuing education credits.
Cognitive Behavior Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0098 and the State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0646 and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0216.
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Social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from providers approved by the American Psychological Association. Since CBI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors in Pennsylvania will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirements by attending CBI continuing education programs. For professionals outside the state of Pennsylvania, you must confirm with your specific State Board that APA approved CE's are accepted towards your licensure requirements. The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) has a process for approving individual programs or providers for continuing education through their Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. ACE approved providers and individual courses approved by ASWB are not accepted by every state and regulatory board for continuing education credits for social workers. Every US state other than New York accepts ACE approval for social workers in some capacity: New Jersey only accepts individually approved courses for social workers, rather than courses from approved providers. The West Virginia board requires board approval for live courses, but accepts ASWB ACE approval for other courses for social workers. For more information, please see https://www.aswb.org/ace/ace-jurisdiction-map/. Whether or not boards accept ASWB ACE approved continuing education for other professionals such as licensed professional counselors or licensed marriage and family therapists varies by jurisdiction. To determine if a course can be accepted by your licensing board, please review your board’s regulations or contact them. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
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Process for Receiving Continuing Education Credit:
- Register
- Attend the Training
- Complete the Evaluation Survey
- Receive Continuing Education Certificate
*Courses remain open for 2 weeks following the end of the training
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