Outline: 

• Introduction by LACPA (3 min.)

• Overview of the topic and refresher on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (15 min)

• How OCD is misunderstood
• Diagnostic criteria and simple explanation
• The OCD cycle

• Scenarios – individuals with OCD that present as possibly suicidal or dangerous (5 min)

• Understanding the problematic nature of misunderstanding obsessions (15)

• Increase in compulsions
• Avoiding treatment
• Incorrect treatment
• Impact on treatment prognosis
• Possible traumatization 

• Suicidal or dangerous OCD presentations – understanding what is actually happening (20 min)

• Self-harm OCD (suicidal)
• Harm to others OCD (homicidal, pedophilia, hit and run, sexual predator, etc.)
• Identifying the obsessions and compulsions

• Ways to better identify obsessions vs. dangerousness and suicidality (20)

• Struggling with our own uncertainty
• What we ask now
• What more we might ask or clarify

Course Goals and Educational Objectives:

1. Describe 3 ways an individual with OCD might appear to present as a danger to self or others.
2. Explain 2 ways in which a clinician mistaking obsessions for harm/danger can be problematic for the individual with OCD.
3. Describe at least 2 ways to distinguish between an obsession vs. suicidality/dangerousness.

 Please note that the Lunch & Learns are being offered as a LACPA Membership Benefit.  

Virtual attendance is limited to 100 LACPA members. Should you have a friend or colleague who would like to attend, please have them join LACPA before they send in this registration form. Programs are subject to change. 

The Los Angeles County Psychological Association (LACPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. LACPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

This course may be taken to satisfy the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) continuing education requirements.

LACPA – 6345 Balboa Blvd, Bldg 2, Suite 126, Encino, CA 91316

818-905-0410   FAX 818-332-4949   [email protected]    www.lacpa.org

Those who attend the workshop in its entirety, sign in and out through the Zoom Chat, and complete the evaluation, will receive 1.5 CE credits. CE Certificates will be emailed within two weeks of the program

Please note; that LACPA Student and Post-Doc/Pre-Licensed members are not granted CE Credits.

APA CE rules require that we only give credit to those who attend the entire workshop.

Those who arrive 15 minutes past the start time or leave before the workshop is complete will not receive CE credits.