OCD and Substance Use Disorders
WITH PATRICK McGRATH, PhD and JAMIE FEUSNER, MD
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Continuing Education For Mental Health Professionals
Course Description
Join Patrick McGrath, PhD, and Jamie Feusner, MD, for an informative and important discussion on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and substance use disorders (SUDs). They’ll describe the comorbid OCD and SUDS presentation, share prevalence rates and other relevant statistics, and discuss the importance of accurate diagnosis. Clinical interviewing strategies and recommended assessment tools will be offered. Treatment options for comorbid OCD and SUDs will be described, including psychotherapy (e.g., exposure and response prevention (ERP)) and medication treatment options. Special topics include: building the treatment team, treatment planning and sequencing, the role of higher levels of care, and lapse and relapse.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Describe key factors to consider for an accurate diagnosis of OCD and substance use disorders.
Identify evidence-based treatment options for comorbid OCD and SUDs.
Course Details
CEs
1 CE credit; 1 CE hour
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2022
9am-10am PST
10am-11am MT
11am-12pm CST
12pm-1pm EST
*Registration will close 30 minutes prior to the event. To be eligible for CE credit (CE hours), participants must log-in by the scheduled start time, attend the entire live course, and successfully complete any prerequisites (e.g., evaluation). To allow for the best learner experience, late entries to live CE webinars will not be permitted.
COST
Free!
INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL COURSE
For Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Other Mental Health Professionals
LIVE, INTERACTIVE CE WEBINAR
Participants will be able to ask questions and interact with the presenters.
PRESENTER
Patrick McGrath, PhD
Patrick B. McGrath, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and the Chief Clinical Officer for NOCD. In this role, he uses his expertise in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders to direct NOCD’s high-quality, evidence-based clinical program, provide weekly consultation groups, and develop and train the multidisciplinary network of clinicians. He has given hundreds of presentations on OCD, anxiety disorders, hoarding, school refusal, and other topics at local, national, and international conferences, as well as at universities, hospitals, and private practices. Dr. McGrath is also an experienced continuing education (CE) instructor.
Dr. McGrath earned his doctoral degree from Northern Illinois University (NIU) and completed his predoctoral internship with Grand Valley State University. Following a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute’s Anxiety Disorders Center, Dr. McGrath went on to work as a staff psychologist at Michigan State University.
Dr. McGrath later opened and led the OCD and Related Anxiety Disorders intensive outpatient, partial hospital, and residential treatment programs at AMITA Health. He also helped open and direct the AMITA Health Foglia Family Foundation Residential Treatment Center, the first treatment facility in the United States to treat OCD, anxiety disorders, and addiction concurrently. Throughout his career, he has provided direct clinical services and supervision for complex OCD cases. He’s also involved in OCD-related research and has several publications.
Dr. McGrath is a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Boards of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). He also serves as co-chair of the IOCDF's OCD and SUD special interest group. He is a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Immediate Past President of OCD Midwest.
Disclosures
Financial: Dr. McGrath is employed by NOCD and has completed this training as part of his regular duties.
Non-financial: Dr. McGrath is a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Boards of the International OCD Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Immediate Past President of OCD Midwest.
PRESENTER
Jamie Feusner, MD
Jamie Feusner, MD, Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, obtained his medical degree and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of California Los Angeles. He then completed a one-year clinical psychopharmacology fellowship followed by a two-year National Institute of Mental Health research fellowship.
Dr. Jamie Feusner is Chief Medical Officer at NOCD. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Division of Neurosciences & Clinical Translation, Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute.
He formerly was Director of the UCLA OCD Intensive Treatment Program for 15 years.
Dr. Feusner’s groundbreaking clinical neuroscience research in OCD and related disorders, over the past 18 years, includes the first functional brain imaging studies in body dysmorphic disorder, and studies of accurate predictive modeling of treatment outcomes using neuroimaging, clinical data, and machine learning. He and the NOCD team published the largest study of clinical treatment in OCD to date, demonstrating that virtual exposure and response prevention is an efficacious and efficient treatment.
Dr. Feusner teaches pharmacotherapy and CBT for OCD, OCD related disorders, anxiety disorders, and depression to psychiatry residents and has been treating OCD and body dysmorphic disorder since 2002. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, a member of the International OCD Foundation Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board, and an Associate Editor of Translational Psychiatry. He has published many peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and lectures nationally & internationally on the topics of OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, and eating disorders.
Disclosures
Financial: Dr. Feusner is the Chief Medical Director of NOCD. He has an honorarium from Pfizer.
Non-financial: Dr. Feusner does not have any non-financial disclosures to report.
Continuing Education Credit
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SOCIAL WORKERS
NOCD, #1805, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. NOCD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2022 – 03/25/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
PSYCHOLOGISTS
NOCD is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NOCD maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS
NOCD has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7212. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NOCD is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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