4165: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The Latest Assessment & Treatment Strategies

About the Course:

This guide to OCD, a common yet often misunderstood illness, offers important treatment strategies that directly benefit clinicians, OCD sufferers, and their loved ones. Concise, clearly written, practical, and up-to-date, this book successfully walks the patient and clinician through OCD behavioral and medical treatment.

Author

Steketee, Gail, Ph.D. & Teresa, Pigott, M.D.

About the Authors:

Dr. Steketee is Professor and Associate Dean at the Boston University School of Social Work. She has over 20 years of research experience, and is the author of a number of books.

Dr. Pigott is the Director of Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She serves on the National Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation and is the former Chief of the Adult OCD Research Studies Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Course Objectives:

1. To increase understanding of the criteria and tools used to diagnosis Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

2. To increase understanding of environmental treatments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

3. To increase understanding of medical treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder