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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Client’s Perspective

September 5, 2007 in WEB Training, All, Client Care, Anxiety Disorders by thom.pancella

Summary:

Discussion in this video focused on Ms. Tarter’s experience of OCD. This experience involves a repetitive cycle of overwhelming obsessions that causes great anxiety and elicits her attempts to decrease this anxiety through the use of rituals that are only briefly satisfying in decreasing the anxiety. Ms Tarter explains that there is no cure for OCD and iterates the idea that folks must learn how to cope with the illness through techniques such as controlled breathing, the use of coping statements, tactile strategies and finally, medication.
Program Presenter:
Amanda Tarter was diagnosed with OCD and PTSD after an accident involving her brother. Ms. Tarter has been treated for both OCD and PTSD for the past 5 years. She is currently a student at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville studying special education. In addition to her studies, Ms. Tarter serves as a volunteer with special needs children. Ms. Tarter and her family are currently involved in a research study which is examining genetic links for OCD.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Family’s Perspective

September 5, 2007 in Family, All, WEB Training, Support Groups, Self Help Support, Community Resources, Child and Adolescents, Client Care, Anxiety Disorders by thom.pancella

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Mr. Bahr, founder of the St. Louis OCD Support group discusses his process of identifying and utilizing a system of support for his son who was diagnosed at an early age with OCD. This process involved educating himself and his family, educating the public, and guiding families and clients to seek information, and treatment resources within their communities.Program Presenter:
Bernie Bahr is the father of a son diagnosed with OCD in 1979, Mr. Bahr, along with his wife began educating themselves on OCD from 1979-1990. In 1990 attended the National OCD meetings, Mr. Bahr and his wife started the St. Louis OCD support group in 1990. They are still very much involved in this effort.
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FAS Examination

September 4, 2007 in All, WEB Training, Substance Abuse, Client Care, Child and Adolescents, Alcohol by thom.pancella

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When conducting a physical exam to assess for FAS Physicians should focus their attention on Occipitofrontal Circumference, the Supraorbital Ridge, the Palpebral Fissures, the Filtrum and assessing for Clinodactyly.
Dr. Braddock conducts an examination on an 11 year old African American male to assess for fetal alcohol syndrome.
Program Presenter:
Stephen Braddock, MD. Dr. Braddock teaches at the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine in the Child Health Department. He is a Geneticist and Dysmorphologist who received an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine 1984-88. Dr. Braddock completed his internship in Pediatrics at the University of Utah, Affiliated Hospitals in 1989. Dr. Braddock completed a Residency in Pediatrics at the University of Utah, Affiliated Hospitals in 1991. He completed a Medical Genetics Fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at UCLA and a Dysmorphology Fellowship in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego in 1994.
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