Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment for OT Professionals

Course Description:

This intermediate-level course is written for mental health professionals, including social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists. Accurate assessment, differential diagnosis, and appropriate treatment planning are important clinical elements in a person’s recovery from OCD. Practitioners will learn about OCD, including symptoms and subtypes, differential diagnoses, causal and influential factors, presentation across the life span, treatment, and assessment. They will also learn how to formulate cases in order to deliver the appropriate interventions that will maximize the treatment outcome.  The course offers a thorough description of exposure and response prevention, an evidence-based OCD treatment strategy, along with other psychotherapeutic and biologically based treatment options, including family involvement and medication.