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CAOT-BC Networking and Education Day: April 29, 2016

In response to your requests for education to support knowledge and skill development in the areas of mental health, CAOT-BC is organizing workshops to meet your needs in 2016. 

Conducting Effective Exposure Therapy will be our first workshop focusing on mental health. In addition, we are pleased to present guest speakers from the Neil Squire Society for the topic of employment solutions & accommodations and Kathy Corbett (CEO & Registrar, COTBC) to discuss business practices and professional accountability.

Don’t miss this day of learning and networking with your colleagues--Registration for the April 29 session is now open and limited to a total of 35 participants. Register early to avoid disappointment. 

Proceeds will go towards CAOT-BC public awareness campaign activities.

AGENDA

8:30am to 4:00pm

830am-1230pm
The Therapists’ Toolkit: Conducting Effective Exposure Therapy
Presenter-Dr. Randy Paterson, PhD RPsych (Changeways)

1230pm-130pm
Lunch with Motion

130pm-400pm
Employment Solutions & Accommodations
(Neil Squire Society)

Business Practices & Professional Accountability: Billing practices, the referral process professional obligations in the third party payer system.
(Kathy Corbett, CEO & Registrar, COTBC)

CAOT-BC Member $150; Student Member $99; Non-Member: $200

Registration includes refreshments and lunch

Free parking available on site

The Therapists’ Toolkit: Conducting Effective Exposure Therapy

The emotions function as a behavioural guidance system. The message of fear and anxiety is “Avoid!” Unfortunately, in the anxiety disorders avoidance tends to perpetuate and magnify the problem. A central element of treatment for most anxiety-related problems is to identify the feared object, thought, or memory, and move toward it. This produces habituation - a reduction in present-focussed anxiety when there is no present danger. The mechanism for reducing anxiety in this way is graduated exposure. This workshop provides explicit guidance on how to conduct exposure-based treatments for anxiety. The goal is to help clinicians become more confident, capable, and knowledgeable using these powerful techniques.  The session will cover:

• The nature and function of fear and anxiety
• The theory of exposure and habituation
• Identifying the REAL fear
• Assessing beliefs about the object of fear
• Why don’t chance exposures help?
• The “three zones model” for explaining exposure
• The generalization gradient
• Reducing client reluctance by bracketing exposure intensity
• The importance of extended exposure
• Setting the anxiety tolerance
• Introducing and using Subjective Units of Distress (SUDs)
• How to develop a useful exposure hierarchy
• The importance of defining finish lines
• Combining exposure and behavioural experiments
• Exposure and response prevention in OCD
• An introduction to interoceptive exposure strategies

And  a discussion of the application of these strategies with anxiety disorders, including:

• Social phobia
• Specific phobias (flying, heights, animals)
• Panic disorder
• Agoraphobia
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Post traumatic stress
• Obsessive compulsive disorder

Learning objectives:
•  Understand the rationale behind exposure-based treatments
•  Be able to lead clients through the “three zones” exercise
•  Be able to offer a clear rationale for the exposure sequence
•  Be able to use Subjective Units of Distress to guide exercises
•  Know how to create, sort, and implement an exposure hierarchy

LOCATION: Motion Specialties, 101-8255 North Fraser Way, Burnaby, BC