AD24 Workshop 02 - Strategic Treatment of OCD: Tactics and Strategies - Reid Wilson, Ph.D

This fast-paced training for intermediate and advanced clinicians will teach you the latest innovations of a treatment model that Reid has continually evolved over his 40- year career. Leading from a metacognitive perspective of the disorder, you will learn the step-by-step strategies, supported by paradoxical tactics and persuasive techniques, in a brief-treatment model for this often-complex disorder. You will study how clients can activate the strategies and tactics immediately, moment-by-moment, and use them whenever OCD intrudes, throughout their life. For clients who remain symptomatic after previous exposure and response prevention treatment, you will learn how to offer them a fresh start, with renewed optimism and with determination to push into the territory that is currently controlled by OCD.

Educational Objectives:

1. Instruct a client in logically dismantling the common dysfunctional metacognitions of OCD

2. Apply a new, internally-consistent paradoxical frame of reference

3. Explain and encourage “approach” emotions toward anxious uncertainty during exposure

4. Demonstrate how to activate the therapeutic strategy moment-by-moment during obsessions or urges to ritualize