Join The Center for Professional Education at Sheppard Pratt for our Spring 2024 OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series!
Sessions I & II, Friday, April 19, 2024, 9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. ET
Session I: Growth Mindset in OCD Treatment
Speaker: Ozge Gurel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Overview: This presentation connects cognitive and behavioral interventions in OCD treatment with a growth mindset and value-based approach in mind. It covers designing and implementing effective exposure and response prevention (ERP) interventions, identifying thinking styles and connecting them to ERP for a healthier cognitive outlook, and enhancing a sense of ownership and expertise in clients to improve therapy outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
After this lecture, registrants will be able to:
- Design and implement effective ERP interventions.
- Identify thinking styles that contribute to OCD and connect them to ERP interventions for bolstering treatment outcomes and maintaining long term gains.
- Use growth mindset concepts in CBT for OCD.
Session II: The Do's and Don'ts of Working with Perfectionists
Speaker: Jeff Szymanski, PhD, Founder and CEO, Getting to the Next Level Consulting, LLC.; Clinical Instructor (part-time), Harvard Medical School; Clinical Associate, McLean Hospital
Overview: “Clinical perfectionism” can occur on its own or in the context of many different disorders. Since perfectionism is often aligned with one's ego, clinicians must guide clients in assessing their own strengths and weaknesses. This helps keep patients from feeling the clinician is trying to undermine their best attribute. In this this lecture, we will discuss individualized assessments, as well as several alternative ways to help clients challenge unhealthy perfectionistic behaviors, including differentiating between intention and strategy, using diminishing returns, changing one’s response to mistake making, strategies for prioritizing, learning when and how to use others for help, and the importance of taking time to recharge.
Learning Objectives:
After this lecture, registrants will be able to:
- Define clinical perfectionism in at least two different ways.
- Identify two ways in which perfectionism “seduces” a client into using old, ineffective behaviors.
- Describe two new interventions they can use to encourage more effective behavior in individuals with unhealthy perfectionism.
Approval Statements:
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and other mental health professionals.
This series offers 9.0 contact hours for attending all three dates.
Physician Statement: Sheppard Pratt is accredited by The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. Sheppard Pratt designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurse Statement: Sheppard Pratt is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on accreditation. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. This activity provides 3.0 contact hours for nurses.
Psychologist Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing education. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this continuing education activity. Sheppard Pratt designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.0 contact hours for Psychologists.
Social Worker Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners of Maryland to offer continuing education for Social Workers. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this continuing education activity. This activity is approved for 3.0 contact hours in Category I credits for Social Workers.
Counselor Statement: Sheppard Pratt has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5098. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Sheppard Pratt is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This activity is available for 3.0 NBCC clock hours.
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