Webinar: Virtual Individual and Group Therapy: The New Wave of Treatment

Recorded Webinar | Lifespan

Treatment Modalities

Telemedicine offers patients and providers the opportunity to break down barriers to care. This panel of therapists walks participants through the benefits, limitations, advantages, and risks of providing and receiving ERP and group treatment for OCD in the virtual world. The webinar will provide an overview of the pros and cons, and relevant ethical as well as legal considerations specific to this practice. It will further discuss considerations for online groups including support groups versus treatment groups. The second half of the webinar will run through a variety of role-plays that can be used with patients in a teletherapy setting.

Faculty: Allison Solomon, PsyD; Michelle Massi, LMFT; Mary Torres, LMHC

Learning Objective 1: Attendees will be able to list the potential advantages and disadvantages of utilizing teleheath in the treatment of OCD (specifically, ERP).

Learning Objective 2: Attendees will demonstrate the legal and ethical considerations involved in telehealth practices such as practicing across state lines.

Learning Objective 3: Attendees will describe the potential advantages and disadvantages to running groups online.

Learning Objective 4: Attendees will increase their ability to adjust ERP treatment in a client’s homes by observing roleplay demonstrations.

Learning Objective 5: Attendees will be able to develop more comprehensive treatment plans by using found objects in the client’s house.