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

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can be one of the most challenging illnesses to treat successfully, and it is made more challenging when working with children and adolescents!

Join OCD experts Kimberly Morrow, LCSW, and Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C, in this engaging presentation you will learn creative and proven strategies to educate and treat kids with OCD, including the use of puppets, games and technology.  You will also learn concrete strategies to help families and schools become a part of the journey to wellness.

1. Discover assessment tools to appropriately diagnose children with OCD.
2. Utilize exposure and response prevention skills to successfully treat kids with OCD.
3. Identify how to help kids and parents change the way they think about OCD.
4. Tell how working with the family and school system will help children through ERP treatment.

Diagnosing OCD

• Obsessions – Intrusive thoughts
• Compulsions – Excessive ritualistic behaviors

Assessment tools for OCD

How to ask questions kids will answer

• CYBOCS to assess and develop treatment plan

Explanation of the brain using kids language

• The overactive amygdala
• Using age – appropriate metaphors

Treatment of OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

• Developing fear hierarchies
• Creative ways to get kids to do exposures

Changing how kids and parents think about OCD

• Anxiety as a paradox
• Talking back to OCD

Teaching parents how to coach their child through ERP

• Talking back to OCD
• Using play techniques to face fears

Working with schools

• Accommodations
• Tips for teachers and guidance counselors
• What strategies work

Termination

• Relapse prevention
• Goals for a final session

Resources

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