This two-day Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Group, led by Dr. Reid Wilson, is a treatment opportunity for individuals with OCD who might not otherwise have access to an intensive OCD treatment program. Components of this program include: how to alter rigidly held belief systems, how to let go of obsessions, how to gain mastery over compulsions, and how to increase courage and determination.
This treatment opportunity will be held in conjunction with the 2017 Annual OCD Conference at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Two sessions of the treatment group will be held, one before and one at the end of the Conference.
The focus of this day is to — individually and as a group — create your personal program of recovery and to practice the key skills of recovery. This will be done in a safe environment and at each person’s own pace.
Each session will be limited to eight participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Four health professionals will be present to observe each group.
To register visit http://www.anxieties.com/181/how-to-register#.WQeCAdLyuM9This two-day Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Group, led by Dr. Reid Wilson, is a treatment opportunity for individuals with OCD who might not otherwise have access to an intensive OCD treatment program. Components of this program include: how to alter rigidly held belief systems, how to let go of obsessions, how to gain mastery over compulsions, and how to increase courage and determination.
This treatment opportunity will be held in conjunction with the 2017 Annual OCD Conference at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Two sessions of the treatment group will be held, one before and one at the end of the Conference.
The focus of this day is to — individually and as a group — create your personal program of recovery and to practice the key skills of recovery. This will be done in a safe environment and at each person’s own pace.
Each session will be limited to eight participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Four health professionals will be present to observe each group.
To register visit http://www.anxieties.com/181/how-to-register#.WQeCAdLyuM9Come join us in the Kids Room to start creating a memory book that you will be able to use all weekend at the conference! Each day during the conference you will have an opportunity to add to this book so that throughout the year you can look back at all of the fun you had with your friends.
Participants will be asked what OCD means for them and create a list of descriptive words. Using their list of words, participants will create a poem. In response to their OCD poem, participants will be asked to create an image using markers/crayons/colored pencils.
Welcome, teens, to the Annual OCD Conference! In this activity, we will create a group comic strip to get to know each other and kick off our next few days together. Teens will have the chance to both create their own frame and add contributions to others’.
The focus of this workshop is to help you get clearer about your values, and to challenge the belief that you must get rid of OCD before you can build a life that matters. The goal of this workshop is to help you build a life you love, even while you are struggling. We will provide opportunities throughout the workshop to make meaningful changes in your lives – one step at a time.
Calling all teenagers - the IOCDF is going on a field trip! Come join Dr. Jason Spielman and his team as they embark on a trip to Union Square, “San Francisco's Crown Jewel of shopping districts.” After a short three block walk from the hotel, choose to accept challenges from the team of therapists or challenge your friends to work on their OCD with exposures while shopping or eating at one of the hundreds of stores. Teenage participants will have the opportunity to learn evidence-based constructive strategies to deal with OCD-related obstacles that are naturally occurring in a real-world shopping setting.
**PLEASE NOTE: All teen participants will need a signed permission slip from their parent/guardian in order to attend this event.
Come imagine and explore a comic strip using a superhero and/or supervillain (and many more) that you created. You will have full creative control over how your hero and/or villain behaves and how much space they take up in your new story. You will be able to give your superhero any super power imaginable.
Middle schoolers will be asked to identify things/people/places/ideas that they value and would like to carry with them wherever they go. They will then create a turtle, incorporating these values into their shell represented through drawings, pictures, words, and designs with various art materials. Attendees will be encouraged to think about how much they can carry with them in their shell, if certain things can be left behind, whether or not these values will change with time, and what they discovered about themselves through this process.
Trying to get the right treatment for OCD can be confusing. Though some may have already received treatment, and they may still suffer from their symptoms and thus feel frustrated.. This bilingual presentation will discuss treatments for OCD that have proven to be effective through scientific research. We will also discuss expectations for treatment, common complications, and alternative treatment options.
In this presentation, we will begin by showing a video from the perspective of a person with OCD, showing an example of what a day with OCD can be like. The creator of the video will then give a short testimony of his own experience, including his therapy journey and the tools that have been useful for him along the way. The goal of this presentation is for participants to gain a better and deeper understanding about what is like to have OCD.
Come hang out in the Kids Room and play! We will have all kinds of games available to play, along with a relaxed and inviting environment with music.
This bilingual workshop begins with reviewing the most common family accommodations to OCD that parents or caregivers engage in, despite knowing that those responses can worsen OCD symptoms. Then, parents or caregivers are invited to identify specific blocks that hinder them from stopping those accommodations, such as fear about their child getting upset, frustrated, tired, etc. Finally, specific behavioral responses to effectively handle these blocks will be presented to parents or caregivers.
It is well known that the best treatment for OCD is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)/Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP). At the same time, it's important to learn and practice strategies to regulate your emotions and manage your symptoms outside of your ERP sessions. The goal of this workshop is to learn different techniques to confront anxiety, including mindfulness, breathing techniques, and relaxation techniques. Come prepared to practice with us!
Participants will be asked to think of a time in their life when they felt a sense of strength and empowerment. Participants will then be asked to embody what it had felt like and create a “pose” to share with the group. Participants will engage in a discussion around coping skills and create a list from ideas shared. Participants will then use this list to create 5x7 coping skills cards, which have a coping skill written on one side and images related to that skill on the opposite side.
Grupo destinado a todas las personas afectadas por el Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo. Facilitaremos la interacción entre afectados para que estos puedan compartir vivencias, explorar similitudes y diferencias de las dificultades que confrontan a diario, al igual que el intercambiar soluciones. Daremos educación sobre la Terapia Cognitiva Conductual y la Terapia de Exposición y Prevención de Respuesta. Se ofrecerá un ambiente de apoyo mutuo que facilite la adquisición de información de servicios de ayuda disponibles, no solo a la comunidad Hispanoparlante, pero también a la comunidad en general.
Join us for a night of fun and games, where each game will help you along your OCD journey in addition to being tons of fun. From charades, to Pictionary, to Apples to Apples, and much more, this game night is sure to be one you will always remember.
This two-day Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Group, led by Dr. Reid Wilson, is a treatment opportunity for individuals with OCD who might not otherwise have access to an intensive OCD treatment program. Components of this program include: how to alter rigidly held belief systems, how to let go of obsessions, how to gain mastery over compulsions, and how to increase courage and determination.
This treatment opportunity will be held in conjunction with the 2017 Annual OCD Conference at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Two sessions of the treatment group will be held, one before and one at the end of the Conference.
The focus of this day is to — individually and as a group — create your personal program of recovery and to practice the key skills of recovery. This will be done in a safe environment and at each person’s own pace.
Each session will be limited to eight participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Four health professionals will be present to observe each group.
To register visit http://www.anxieties.com/181/how-to-register#.WQeCAdLyuM9This is not goodbye; it’s see you later! Come say “See you later!” to all of your Conference friends and sign each other’s memory books. We will have the art supplies ready and waiting all afternoon so that you can write in each other’s memory books.
In this activity, we will use various art materials to explore our discomfort and discover ways to work through it. Using pastels, create an image that represents something that gets in your way. Then, using markers or paint, create an image over the pastels that represent something that is important to you, and you would prefer to "focus" your attention on.
As a group, participants will reflect on their experiences over the past few days while creating a large drawing together. Participants will find a partner to work with, with whom they will share something that they are struggling with. After sharing, partners will make each other a “compassion card” in regards to the struggles shared.
This two-day Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Group, led by Dr. Reid Wilson, is a treatment opportunity for individuals with OCD who might not otherwise have access to an intensive OCD treatment program. Components of this program include: how to alter rigidly held belief systems, how to let go of obsessions, how to gain mastery over compulsions, and how to increase courage and determination.
This treatment opportunity will be held in conjunction with the 2017 Annual OCD Conference at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Two sessions of the treatment group will be held, one before and one at the end of the Conference.
The focus of this day is to — individually and as a group — create your personal program of recovery and to practice the key skills of recovery. This will be done in a safe environment and at each person’s own pace.
Each session will be limited to eight participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Four health professionals will be present to observe each group.
To register visit http://www.anxieties.com/181/how-to-register#.WQeCAdLyuM9