4.5 clinical CEs
$99.00
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Inference-based CBT (I-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment of choice for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. I-CBT is an upstream modality that targets the obsessional doubt of the OCD cycle (Aardema, 2023). When the obsessional doubt is resolved, then the anxiety and compulsive aspects of OCD do not take place (Aardema, 2023). This can be used as a stand-alone treatment for OCD that does not require exposures.This training will give clinicians an introductory knowledge of I-CBT, and they will then be able to provide I-CBT treatment for clients with OCD. This training is 5 hours and is delivered in a didactic format with practicum.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will explain the differences between Inference-based CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention
- Participants will identify the 5 reasons as to where obsessions originate from
- Participants will explain the process of inferential confusion
- Participants will distinguish the difference between a reasonable doubt vs an obsessional doubt
- Participants will identify the tricks and cheats of OCD according to Inference-based CBT
- Participants will apply knowledge of Inference-based CBT to case conceptualization
Course Outline
| Module | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Theory & Inferential Confusion |
| 2 | The Logic of OCD |
| 3 | The Obsessional Story |
| 3.5 | Bridging |
| 4 | The Feared Self |
| 5&6 | OCD is Imaginary & Irrelevant |
| 7 | The Bubble |
| 8 | Reality Sensing |
| 9 | The Alternative Story |
| 10 | The Tricks & Cheats of OCD |
| 11 | The Real Self |
| 12 | Recovery & Relapse Prevention |
Instructor Bio
Brittany is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in Obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders. Brittany received her Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Social Work from Salisbury University. Brittany is an experienced practitioner and author in Inference-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), having authored the first published I-CBT workbook. Brittany has created an entire I-CBT training that she has taught to hundreds of clinicians. She received regular consultations from the Founder of I-CBT, Fred Aardema. She also participates in frequent learning opportunities around I-CBT such as facilitating skills groups to help clinicians implement different techniques they can use with their clients when utilizing I-CBT.
Course Bibliography
Adapted by Brittany Goff from: O'Connor, K., & Aardema, F. (2012). Clinician's handbook for obsessive compulsive disorder: Inference-based therapy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Baraby, L-P., Bourguignon, L., & Aardema, F. (2022). The relevance of dysfunctional reasoning to OCD and its treatment: Further evidence for inferential confusion utilizing a new task-based measure. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 101728.
Baraby, L-P., Wong, S.F., Radomsky, A.S., & Aardema, F. (2021). Dysfunctional reasoning processes and their relationship with feared self-perceptions and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: An experimental investigation with a new task-based measure of inferential confusion. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 28, 100593.
Lorens-Aguilar, S, Arnáez, S., Aardema, F., & Garcia-Soriano, G. (2022). The relationship between obsessions and the self: Feared and actual self-descriptions in a clinical OCD sample. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 29, 642-651.
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Cognitive Behavior Institute, #1771, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 06/30/2022-06/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 4.5 clinical continuing education credits.
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