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SUMMARY:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Oct 2025) Online Course
DESCRIPTION:OCD is the fourth most common mental illness. Patients often report high functional impairment and poor quality of life. OCD can be a challenge to properly diagnose. Other conditions present in similar ways\, such as impulse control disorders. In order to help patients find wellness\, it is essential to accurately differentiate OCD. \nThis online course helps you understand and identify clinical features of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It is led by renowned OCD expert and Harvard Medical School Professor Sabine Wilhelm\, PhD. This course focuses on how to use effective assessment and treatment strategies for OCD in your practice. \nThese skills are critical across all professions. Psychiatrists\, primary care physicians\, psychologists\, social workers\, and other frontline mental health professionals can benefit from taking this course. During this course\, our faculty provide guidance on how to: \nDevelop a personalized cognitive behavioral model for patients with OCD based upon a comprehensive assessment.\nApply cognitive-\, behavioral-\, and acceptance-based skills to treat the different OCD symptom subtypes.\nManage treatment-interfering behaviors (such as homework noncompliance).\nThe course includes an array of role-play videos that illustrate techniques and uses self-assessments to measure and enhance your skills. You can also participate in live weekly call-in times and moderated discussion boards. This allows our faculty to provide direct feedback on all your clinical questions. All course content is 100% mobile-friendly and on-demand. You can complete assignments whenever and wherever your schedule allows!
URL:https://iocdf.org/event/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-oct-2025-online-course/
LOCATION:lms.mghcme.org
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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SUMMARY:MGH 4-week Online CBT for OCD training (Beginning 10/6)
DESCRIPTION:We wanted to let you know that Massachusetts General Hospital is running a 4-week intro-level online course on CBT for OCD beginning October 6th (registration deadline October 20th). Even though ERP is the gold-standard treatment for OCD\, too few clinicians are trained in it. This course aims to close that gap and is geared towards providers early in their career\, those who want to expand their practice to include OCD\, and those who want a refresher. \nFaculty include:\n• Sabine Wilhelm\, PhD (Chief of Psychology\, Director of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders\, MGH)\n• Ryan Jacoby\, PhD (Assistant Director of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders\, MGH) \nThe course format includes on-demand video modules\, a faculty-moderated discussion board\, plus live Q&A. The format is also flexible\, allowing you to progress at your own pace until the course end date on November 17th. You can receive 10 CE Credits for participation. \nDetails: https://lms.mghcme.org/CBTocdOct2025 \nWe hope that you will join us!
URL:https://iocdf.org/event/mgh-4-week-online-cbt-for-ocd-training-beginning-10-6/
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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SUMMARY:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: An Online Introduction (November 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) was recently added to the Feeding and Eating Disorders section of DSM-5 to describe children\, adolescents\, and adults who do not eat enough food (by variety or volume)\, typically because of sensory sensitivity\, fear of aversive consequences (e.g.\, choking\, vomiting)\, and/or apparent lack of interest in eating or food. Although there is a robust literature on pediatric feeding disorders in very young children\, ARFID itself is so new that there is currently no evidence-based treatment for older children\, adolescents\, or adults. Thus\, our online course will fill an important gap for our colleagues who are already seeing such patients in clinical practice by providing specialized training in a new form of cognitive-behavioral therapy for ARFID (CBT-AR) that we have developed and refined at Massachusetts General Hospital for patients aged 10 through older adults. E\narly data from our preliminary efficacy studies indicate that\, on average\, patients who receive CBT-AR incorporate many novel foods into their regular diets\, gain significant weight (if underweight)\, and significantly reduce both ARFID symptom severity and food neophobia. Our 6-week course will cover the assessment of ARFID and determining patient appropriateness of CBT-AR\, as well as the implementation of all four stages of this flexible\, modular treatment. Material will be drawn from our recently published books\n(Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children\, Adolescents\, and Adults\, Cambridge University Press\, 2019; and The Picky Eater’s Recovery Book: Overcoming Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder\, Cambridge University Press\, 2021)\, cases we have seen in our clinical practice\, and our ongoing research studies on the neurobiology and treatment of ARFID. \nCourse materials are available beginning on November 3\, 2025\, and all online coursework must be completed by December 29\, 2025. \nPricing\nRegistration Deadline: November 17\, 2025 \nPhysicians and Doctoral-level Professionals: $445.00\nOther Professionals: $345.00
URL:https://iocdf.org/event/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-avoidant-restrictive-food-intake-disorder-an-online-introduction-november-2025/
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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SUMMARY:3rd Annual OCD Kansas Conference 2025 - Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for the 3rd Annual OCD Kansas Conference 2025\, where we’ll dive deep into all things OCD from the comfort of your own home!
URL:https://iocdf.org/event/3rd-annual-ocd-kansas-conference-2025-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Affiliate-hosted
ORGANIZER;CN="OCD Kansas":MAILTO:ocdkansas@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Family and Loved One's Online OCD Support Group!
DESCRIPTION:Join our support group this Saturday\, November 8th from 11AM – 1 PM PST. Email: info@ocdsocal.org and request Saturday’s support group’s link! We meet virtually every second Saturday of the month. \nFor our November Family & Loved Ones OCD Support Group\, we are happy to welcome Liz McIngvale\, Ph.D.\, LCSW\, one of the leading voices in the OCD community. In addition to being the Director of the OCD Institute of Texas\, a residential treatment center that specializes in OCD and related disorders\, she also has a popular podcast\, “Anxiety Society\,” co-hosts the IOCDF’s “Ask the Experts” livestreams with Chris Trondsen\, LMFT\, advocates for OCD\, and is on the IOCDF Board of Directors. \nTitled “Navigating Effective Treatment: From Functioning to Freedom\,” Dr. Liz McIngvale will inform family members\, spouses\, and loved ones about the top-notch\, effective\, frontline OCD treatments their loved one with OCD should receive. Dr. McIngvale will also advise what to expect from ERP\, medication\, and adjunctive treatments. She will explain your role during treatment and outline accurate expectations\, outcomes\, and timelines for recovery. Typical roadblocks to care will be discussed\, along with signs your loved one is not with the right provider\, when to switch therapists\, and how to know when higher levels of care are needed. \nIn addition to her clinical experience\, she will share treatment lessons from her own lived experience with the disorder. As a severe case of OCD\, her family came together to ensure Liz received the best care possible. She will pass on those lessons to you\, the attendee. \nYou will leave with a clear understanding of what effective care looks like and what to expect during OCD treatment. You’ll know what your loved one’s treatment will involve\, the difference between effective and ineffective care\, and when to make adjustments to their treatment. Dr. McIngvale will cover common roadblocks and provide guidance on how to ensure you are on the right path. Following the presentation\, Dr. Liz McIngvale will be available for a Q & A where she will answer any of your questions! \nWe will see you this Saturday\, November 8th\, from 11am to 1pm PST! Make sure to email info@ocdsocal.org to receive the Zoom link and visit www.ocdsocal.org for more information!
URL:https://iocdf.org/event/family-and-loved-ones-online-ocd-support-group/
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SUMMARY:2nd OCD Online Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join hosts Chrissie Hodges and Duke Al-Durham and participants from around the world sharing their lived experience stories of mental health creatively through storytelling\, poetry\, spoken word\, rap\, song\, instrument\, art\, and and more! \nThis open mic is NOT open to the public online\, it is for paying attendees only. This way the audience are people invested in hearing your stories and your expressions of creativity around your experience. This is a safe space! It will not be recorded\, and it will not be used for marketing purposes moving forward. Presentations may be done on camera\, or anonymously. \nIf you would like to participate in the open mic\, please purchase your ticket and sign up by clicking here to register your submission! \nThis event will span many timezones. The exact time of the event will be announced once all participants have registered so we can coordinate the timezones for all countries participating. The event will be somewhere between 2pm EST – 5pm EST. The event will broadcast over Streamyard and you will receive the link to join and watch a few days before the event is broadcast. \nALL PROCEEDS go toward the collaboration between OCD Gamechangers and Poet Treehouse in hosting international events in 2025 in Dublin\, Ireland and Cardiff\, Wales. Every dollar in ticket purchases will help to host these events and sponsor individuals to attend as well. \nIf you would like to donate or sponsor an event or the open mic as well\, please email ocd.chrissie@gmail.com or donate at www.ocdgamechangers.com \nYou will receive an email before the open mic with the link to join and instructions.  \nThank you for your support – your purchase is making a difference in people’s lives!
URL:https://iocdf.org/event/dublin-ireland-ocd-community-event/
CATEGORIES:Partner Event
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