This is a stand-alone course that can be taken by any practitioner as part of their continuous professional development (CPD).
It is also one of the modules within:
This one day course covers issues of definitions and co-morbidity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Foa’s theory of OCD, assessment and formulation, along with a range of CBT interventions as they apply to OCD. The live course addresses all the essentials of this work and outlines the new developments and approaches occurring in the field in the last few years.
Issues covered include:
- OCD presentations and co-morbidity
- Assessment and standard outcome measures including OCI
- Introduction to Salkovskis’ and Wells’ models of OCD
- Extinction response prevention treatment programmes
- The role of cognitive factors in OCD
- Common cognitive biases in OCD
- Thought-Action fusion and Thought-Object fusion
- Inflated sense of responsibility and power
- Internal safety seeking and compulsive behaviours
- Normalising intrusive thoughts
- The use of behavioural experiments with OCD
- Updates and New Developments





