OCD and Autism
When: Friday, November 14th at 4:45pm EST
Where: LIVE on Zoom
Presented By: April Kilduff, MA, LCPC, Brittany Goff, MSW, LCSW-C, and Dr. Jeremy Shuman, PsyD
Continuing Education: 1.25 NBCC CEs
OCD is one of the most frequent mental health conditions impacting autistic individuals, and yet there is commonly confusion about a number of fundamental principles relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of OCD in autistic individuals. This presentation is designed for a general audience to become better acquainted with the factors that determine if a repetitive behavior is helpful for quality of life or harmful, the strengths and weaknesses of the intervention strategies that are shown to be effective for treating OCD when they are applied to autistic individuals, and the kinds of outcomes that can result from intervention. Presenters will cover differential functional assessment of repetitive behaviors, compliance trauma/ learned helplessness in OCD treatment, ethical implementation of exposure therapy, and cutting edge uses of an inference based approach to conceptualizing and treating OCD.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to differentiate RRBs in autism from compulsions in OCD
Participants will be able to create effective and ethical treatment plans for OCD using strategies from behaviorism while avoiding coercion or the teaching of learned helplessness
Participants will be introduced to non-exposure based effective OCD care that can make sense of how chronic invalidation of lived experience can lead to the confused reasoning seen in OCD.
Is the course recorded?
Yes! We record live & email replay access to the recordings a few days after the course.
HOWEVER. LIVE attendance is required to qualify for the Continuing Education Certificate of Completion.
How do I qualify for NBCC CEs for this course?
Attend the presentation live & try to not be more than 10 minutes late! Complete the survey which will be distributed in the last 20 minutes of the presentation. You will get your CE Certificate automatically after you complete the survey.
Meet the Presenters
April Kilduff, MA, LCPC
On the Web: www.ChallengeAnxiety.com
Venmo: @April-Kilduff
April Kilduff, MA, LCPC, LPCC, LMHC, LPC (she/they) is a Therapist, Clinical Training Specialist & Consultant with her own private practice & also contracts with NOCD. Previously she worked in OCD/Anxiety IOP/PHPs in the Ascension & Rogers Behavioral Health Hospitals in Chicago. April also served as a Clinical Director at a group practice where she trained staff on treating OCD with Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP). As a therapist, she has enjoyed working with autistic adults struggling with OCD for the past 16 years & was identified as autistic herself in 2022. When not working, you can find her at home with her 2 cats, reading, taking photos & planning trips to see the world.
Dr. Jeremy Shuman, PsyD
On the Web: https://mindfulstl.com/providers/jeremy-shuman-psy-d/
Venmo: @jeremyshumanpsych
Jeremy Shuman (he/him) is an autistic psychologist in St. Louis, MO. He specializes in the treatment of OCD and has a niche in working with clients who have dropped out of intensive levels of care due to unethical or ineffective practices in behavioral therapy. Many of these clients are autistic, and benefit from psychoeducation about the subjective experience of autism as an important piece of conceptualizing the factors that maintain their OCD. Jeremy has a full time psychotherapy practice, trains new clinicians at his clinic through seminar and consultation, takes a leadership role in IOCDF’s Autism/OCD Special Interest Group, regularly contributes to podcasts, and provides trainings and consultation virtually to clinicians.
Brittany Goff, MSW, LCSW-C
Brittany Goff - Brittany Goff (she/her) is an autistic Clinical Director, Author, & Instructor. She runs Zen Psychological Center, an OCD practice in Maryland. She is also an Instructor for Cognitive Behavioral Institute for continuing education in Inference-based Cognitive behavioral therapy for OCD. She also wrote the first ever I-CBT workbook. She offers a neuroaffirming perspective to treating OCD.
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Autistic Clinical Insights is a scrappy group of autistic clinicians and allies with a desire to advance knowledge and clinical support for autistic people.
This virtual conference is hosted by NeuroAbundant, LLC an NBCC ACEP #7589.
© Copyrights by NeuroAbundant. All Rights Reserved.