Webinar: Difficult Cases: Increasing Motivation, Incorporating ACT, and Options for Levels of Care

Recorded Webinar | Lifespan

Treatment Modalities

Although efficacious psychosocial and pharmacological interventions exist, there remains a subset of individuals with OCD that struggle to see substantial gains in treatment. This presentation will address such “treatment-resistant” cases. The session begins with Dr. Weg who reviews the challenges in motivating clients to do work in ERP after failed attempts, and their associated motivating strategies. Then Dr. Mazza will focus on utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to address motivation as well as the underlying issues that maintain the disorder. The session will end with a short series of other levels of care available after psychotherapy does not bring symptom relief. Panelists will discuss such issues as diagnostic complexity, motivation, appropriateness of the level of care, and treatment-interfering behaviors.

Faculty: Allen Weg, EdD; Brad Riemann, PhD; Jason Krompinger, PhD, ABPP; Martin Franklin, PhD; Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD; Marisa Mazza, PsyD

Learning Objective 1: Attendees will be able to list some of the most common blocks to client motivation in the treatment of OCD.

Learning Objective 2: Attendees will be able to describe multiple factors involved in engaging a client’s trust, and how that relates to the power to motivate.

Learning Objective 3: Attendees will be able to describe how acceptance-based exposures are different from traditional exposures.

Learning Objective 4: Attendees will be able to list the 6 core processes in ACT.

Learning Objective 5: Attendees will be able to compare various interventions commonly used to augment ERP when confronted with treatment resistant cases.

Learning Objective 6: Attendees will be able to define the variables to consider in clinical decision-making, including when to refer to higher levels of care.