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CBT for OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).

'CBT for OCD' is a 2-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas in the UK and Ireland.

It is the only CBT for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of the Extended Training in CBT course.

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Executive Summary:

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is where a person has an obsessive belief (for example that their hands are contaminated) and a compulsion to perform a behaviour that will relieve the distress (for example to wash their hands). Typically the obsessions and compulsions get more and more severe and may expand to include many facets of everyday life. Inevitably, therefore, this causes great distress to the sufferer and those around them, and the seeming inability to control their own behaviour simply results in additional distress and bewilderment. Usually, those with OCD realise that their behaviour is 'not normal' and this is a clear differentiator between obsessional beliefs and psychotic ones.

The aims of the course:

The aims are (a) to describe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, (b) to describe the theory which explains how OCD develops and (c) to cover the methods of treatment for OCD in a way that encourages delegates to use them subsequently.

The course covers:

What is OCD? Symptoms including: behavioural, biological, emotional, and cognitive symptoms.
Causes and maintaining factors of OCD.
A description of obsessions and compulsions and how they inter relate.
NICE guidelines for OCD and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD is a preoccupation with a perceived defect in ones appearance).
The NICE stepped care approach, both pharmacological and psychological/behavioural.
The measurement of OCD. In evidence based practice it is essential to obtain evidence from the patient, their friends and their relatives. Objective and subjective measures.
Exposure plus response prevention; its major role in OCD, how we do it, how anxiety decreases over time and how people with OCD need so much support and encouragement to carry on with the helpful treatment.
Helpful adjuncts to therapy: modelling, extended sessions, and more.
Psycho-education, patient-practice and differential reinforcement.
Key metaphors that are helpful in explanation and encouragement for people with OCD.
Social factors. Social factors are often implicated in OCD, so it is important to assess and address them.
The limited role of logical evidence based reasoning in OCD.
OCD and autistic spectrum disorders. A feature of ASD is the 'obsessionality' that frequently accompanies it. Can they be treated in the same way as other OCD cases?
Sexual obsessions and obsessions with previous partners. An examination of whether these can be treated in the same way as OCD obsessions.
Course methods include lectures, discussions, video material, case studies and practice exercises.

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

Booking this training is easy...

Booking Options...

for individuals or small groups

for teams and organisations

For individuals or small groups:

Option 1: Online Live course:

a live event hosted online via Zoom. (And you don’t even have to have your own Zoom account.)

A live and interactive online course, ask questions, make your observations, ‘Chat’ to other delegates. Open for you to attend from your home or workplace. Choose from one of the following dates to attend (2-days):

12-13 October 2023
10-11 October 2024

Price: £295 plus VAT per person. The fee covers: tuition, hardcopy workbook*, certification, registration, and accreditation at APT’s Level 1, with option to sit the online exam to upgrade to Level 2. Times: 10am - 4pm (UK) daily, including 45 minutes for lunch.

*PDF workbooks are sent to those outside of the UK.

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For teams and organisations:

Option 1: Face-to-Face Onsite course:

We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee.

Price: £4,750 plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: £290 plus VAT per person.

To book, call (UK) 0116 241 8331, or click the button:

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Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course:

Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organisation.

Price: £3,170* plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people (workbooks for every delegate are included in this price - if you require workbooks being sent to more than one location, there is an extra charge of £10 per extra address). Extra delegates £190 plus VAT per person.

*We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of £100 plus VAT per day.

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Option 3: 'Train the Trainer':

If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organisation, under license.

This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organisation the tutor-component of the fee each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the 'Online Live and Exclusive' fee, regardless of whether the course is held Face-to-Face or Online).

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Downloadable information sheet:

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NICE guidelines relevant to this course:

OCD and Body dysmorphic disorder (CG31) ❯

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.

Face-to-Face

Presentation: 96%

Relevance: 92%

Online Live*

Presentation: 94%

Relevance: 89%

*This online live ratings are taken from the last two runnings of the course in this format.

Reviews.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'CBT for OCD' course has received.

"I really useful and informative course that has increased my confidence in treating this complex disorder. I found the tutor professional and knowledgeable but at the same time warm and approachable. Many thanks.”

"The course was extremely useful and will help with my work. I have been able to review my practices and hopefully transfer this to my workplace. It has increased my knowledge surrounding OCD.”