Kimberly Morrow – OCD, Ten Best Treatment Strategies for Children & Adolescents

Obsessive Compulsive Disease can be difficult to treat. This is especially true when it involves children and adolescents.

Kimberly Morrow – OCD, Ten Best Treatment Strategies for Children & Adolescents

Obsessive Compulsive Disease can be difficult to treat. This is especially true when it involves children and adolescents.

Join OCD experts Kimberly Morrow, LCSW and Elizabeth DuPont Spencer LCSW-In this engaging presentation C, you’ll learn innovative and tested strategies to treat OCD in children, using puppets, games, and technology.  Also, you’ll learn how to make schools and families part of the path to wellness.

1. Use these assessment tools to help diagnose OCD in children.
2. Use exposure and response prevention skills when treating OCD children.
3. Find out how to help parents and kids change their perceptions of OCD.
4. Your ERP treatment will be more successful if you work with your family and school system.

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• Diagnostics for OCD
  • Obsessions: Intrusive thoughts
  • Compulsions – Excessive ritualistic behavior
• Assessment tools for OCD
• What questions to ask your kids
  • CYBOCS for assessment and development of treatment plan
• Explaining the brain with kids language
  • The hyperactive amygdala
  • Use age-appropriate metaphors
• Treatment OCD Treatments: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).
  • Developing fear hierarchies
  • There are creative ways to get kids exposed
• OCD can be treated by parents and kids differently
  • Anxiety as a paradox
  • OCD: Talking back
• ERP coaching for parents: How to coach your child
  • OCD: Talking back
  • Face your fears with play techniques
• Collaboration with schools
  • Hotels
  • Tips for Guidance counselors and teachers
  • What strategies work
• Termination
  • Relapse prevention
  • Goals for A final session
• Resources