Summary:
OCD is characterized by the experience of obsessions and compulsions that greatly affect the quality of an individual’s life. Obsessions are thoughts, feelings, and urges that result in great discomfort. Compulsions are the strategies that people use to decrease or neutralize discomfort experienced by the obsessions. In order to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of OCD, a person must spend 1 hour a day in either mental or behavioral ritual or the obsession must cause great distress and/or it must cause significant problems in their life. Furthermore, OCD has an impact of the individual’s family and other systems of support.In this video, Mr. Mitchell describes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and identifies the criteria for its diagnosis. In addition, Mr. Mitchell describes how OCD is manifested in behavior and identifies treatment options for the disorder. Further discussion centers on how family and other support systems are affected by the person with OCD.
Program Presenter:
Gary Mitchell, MSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker who has expertise in the treatment of children and adults with anxiety disorders and related problems. He is the Assistant Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center of St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, which specializes in the treatment of refractory and complicated cases. Mr. Mitchell has also worked in residential treatment providing Cognitive, Behavioral and Family Therapy for emotionally disturbed children. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the St. Louis University School of Social Services, where he teaches Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy.
Glossary of Terms:
OCD – A disorder characterized by obsessions and compulsions that greatly affect the quality of an individual’s life.
Obsessions – Thoughts, feelings, and urges that result in great discomfort.
Compulsion – Strategies that people use to decrease or neutralize the discomfort associated with obsessions.
Avoidant strategy – Planned avoidance of situations that the individual with OCD finds threatening or fearful.
Obsessional slowness - The experience of a person taking a tremendous amount of time to engage in any activity.
Selective Seretonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) - A type of medication that inhibits the reuptake of selective serotonin in the pre-synaptic neuron. SSRIs are prescribe to treat OCD.
Exposure and response prevention - A cognitive/behavioral approach in which the therapist and client identify the client’s fear and then sets up a hierarchy of situations of engagement to help the client face his/her fears. This hierarchy of engagement starts with low risk and gradually increases to high risk in order to increase the client’s awareness of their avoidant strategies so that he/she can discontinue them.
Imaginable exposure - Either a preparatory stage of engagement with the therapist in which the individual begins to think about his/her fear, or a form of engagement utilized in lieu of actual feared object such as blood.
Exposure therapy – Actual exposure to the feared object.
Points of Application:
Think about a time in your life where you obsessed about something and review that experience by identifying the time in your life that it occurred, how it felt, what the obsession was, and how you eliminated it.
Think about what you might say to an individual who shares with you they have OCD.
Identify one or two fears you have and think about how you work through these fears.
Identify a time when you had a recurring thought and identify what it was and it made you feel, and the method you used to get it to go away.
Imagine how uncomfortable you might feel if you felt compelled to do something repeatedly to avoid harm, how would you want someone to respond to you in that situation? What response do you think might help?
Review your agency resource manual or local phone directory to identify any agencies, organizations in your city whose purpose is to provide support or services to those who have OCD.
Contact Hours:
For an additional $10 above the purchase of the training, we offer the following accreditation which can be purchased via a mail-in form included with the disk: The University of Missouri-Columbia Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) will be responsible for this program and maintain a record of your continuing education credits earned. The Missouri Institute of Mental Health will award 1 clock hour or 1.2 contact hours (.1 CEU) for this activity. MIMH credit will fulfill Clinical Social Work and Psychologist licensure requirements in the State of Missouri. Attendees with licensure from other states are responsible for seeking appropriate continuing education credit, from their respective boards for completing this program.
Running Time:
30 minutes
Price:
$20.00
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