Webinar: Working with Families

Recorded Webinar | Lifespan

Working with Support Persons

Family treatment for OCD is becoming a necessary component in providing individual treatment. When treating an individual struggling with OCD, it’s impossible to separate the individual from their environment. Similar to working with a plant, the environment must be taken into account. In this talk, Perrie Merlin will discuss how the interactions between the Family and Sufferer lead to accommodations which then often lead to a stagnation of developmental stages for both the Family and the Individual. Following, Dr. Alec Pollard and Heidi Pollard will delve into working with the families of treatment refusers. It will familiarize therapists with interventions designed to help families burdened by a relative with OCD who will not seek help. Particular attention will be devoted to an approach developed by the presenters called Family Well-Being Consultation (FWBC).

Faculty: Alec Pollard, PhD; Heidi Pollard, MSN; Perrie Tal Merlin, LICSW

Learning Objective 1: Attendees will be able to identify 2 counterproductive family responses to treatment-refusal.

Learning Objective 2: Attendees will be able to identify the various treatment approaches developed to help families burdened by a treatment-refuser.

Learning Objective 3: Attendees will be able to identify the 4 components of Family Well-Being Consultation.

Learning Objective 4: Attendees will be able to describe how to tolerate and set limits in heated meetings as well as maintaining safety for all.

Learning Objective 5: Attendees will be able to demonstrate the parallel work/treatment of the family and how it complements the individual work.

Learning Objective 6: Attendees will be able to rate progress and options when treatment comes to a standstill.