The Art of Persuasion:
Changing the Mind on OCD
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Reid Wilson, PhD |
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| Date: | Friday, May 25, 2012 | ||
| Time: | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | ||
| Location: | Koffler House/Multi-Faith Centre, University of Toronto 569 Spadina Avenue, Toronto (Click here for directions.) |
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| Fee: | $189 (+ HST) up to Apr. 12 $199 (+ HST) after Apr. 12 (Please see Fees page for multiple-registration discounts.) |
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How do you move someone toward anxious uncertainty when their heart, mind, and soul are committed to finding comfort? You will learn a persuasive strategy — built out of whole cloth within the first session — that will frame the entire treatment protocol. Persuading OCD clients to adopt a new frame of reference is the therapist's primary task. Those who succumb to the spell of obsessive-compulsive disorder conjure up a potion of avoidance and resistance as their only means to keep uncertainty and distress from boiling over. Two objectives direct their decisions: (1) take only actions that have a highly predictable, positive outcome, and (2) stay comfortable. Altering perception — not adding technique — helps them change directions because belief always trumps exposure practice. Then repetition of action in the face of doubt and distress is required to solidify therapeutic gains.
You will learn how to persuade clients to voluntarily seek out and embrace uncertainty and anxiety as their ticket out of suffering. You’ll then learn techniques that generate positive motivation to help them develop mastery over their symptoms. These self-help oriented skills can be applied to the treatment of washers and cleaners, checkers, repeaters, hoarders, orderers, cognitive-ritualizers, and pure obsessionals.
You will learn —
- A persuasive strategy that will frame the entire treatment protocol
- How to move clients toward anxious uncertainty when they are much more committed to finding comfort
- How to conduct exposure sessions without the hierarchies
- Four primary manipulations of obsessions
- Nine characteristics of rituals and how to disrupt them
- Techniques to generate positive motivation to help clients develop mastery over OCD symptoms
Reid Wilson, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is author of Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, now in its revised edition, and co-author of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions, and other publications. He is also co-author of Achieving Comfortable Flight, a self-help kit for the fearful flyer, and has designed and served as lead psychologist for American Airlines' first national program for the fearful flyer. Dr. Wilson is a noted and frequent international workshop presenter. For more information, visit www.anxieties.com.