Comprehensive Behavior Model for Treating Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors

A Comprehensive Behavior Model for Treating Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors

Jessica Samson, Psy.D

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INTRODUCTORY LEVEL: Target audience: this introdcutory training is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFTs.

This workshop is a 3-hour training that will focus on understanding and treating Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) e.g. hair pulling, skin picking, nail and cheek biting. This workshop will include a review of diagnostic criteria for BFRBs, an overview of their clinical presentation and related assessment, and a visual framework for conceptualizing BFRBs. We will focus on how the Comprehensive Behavioral Model (ComB), an evidence-based approach for treating BFRBs is implemented with child and adolescent clients. Additionally we will provide an overview of other evidence-based approaches that are also being used to enhance BFRB treatment e.g. Habit Reversal Training (HRT), Accpetance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Experiential activities, role-plays, sharing lived experience will be used to further application and synthesis of the information provided.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the diagnostic criteria for, and assessment of, BFRBs.

2. Explain the importance and application of functional assessment in BFRBs and how this

assessment informs treatment.

3. Apply ComB treatment interventions for clients with BFRBs

4. Understand how other treatment interventions e.g. ACT, HRT, and MI can be used to supplement and enhance ComB

5. Assess for and address roadblocks in BFRB treatment

Presenter

Dr. Jessica Samson is a licensed psychologist with fifteen years of experience who uses evidence-based treatments to provide individual therapy interventions to children, adolescents, and adults. She earned her Master’s and Psy.D. degrees from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Immediately following graduate school, she worked on two multi-site clinical trials at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, providing cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to children and adolescents with anxiety and tic disorders. Dr. Samson currently provides therapy to children, adolescents, and adults at her private practice in Bethesda, MD. In addition to maintaining her full-time private practice, she provides CBT case consultation and supervision to first and second-year psychiatry fellows at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Throughout her years of doing evidence based treatment for a wide range of mental health diagnoses, she has developed expertise in the implementation of interventions for tic disorders and body focused repetitive behaviors.

More Information:

Please contact our CE Coordinator, Keri Linas at klinas@alvordbaker.com.

Continuing Education: 3 credits

Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC is authorized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of Continuing Education. A certificate for Category 1 credits will be awarded at the completion of each workshop.

Alvord Baker & Associates, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0213.

Refund Policy

If Alvord,Baker & Associates, LLC decides to cancel the class, all registrants will receive a full refund. Through Friday, May 31, 2024, registrants of the workshop who need to cancel for any reason will receive a refund of 90% of their registration fee. Cancellation requests must be received no later than Friday, May 31, 2024. To cancel, please contact our CE Coordinator, Keri Linas at klinas@alvordbaker.com,

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