CPI NewsBrief: New Modules Now Available: Improving Providers’ Assessment, Care, Delivery and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

CPI News Brief_____ Volume 10 Issue 8 March 2021

New Modules Now Available: Improving Providers’ Assessment, Care, Delivery and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Did you know that:

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder has a prevalence of 2% and is twice as common as Schizophrenia
The median age of onset is 19 years old
About sixty percent of individuals living with OCD in the community do not receive the treatment they need

Together with the New York State Office of Mental Health and the Center for Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, the Center for Practice Innovations is pleased to announce a new training initiative to improve the quality of care for individuals suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, Improving Providers’ Assessment, Care, Delivery and Treatment of OCD (IMPACT-OCD).

Three new online training modules are now available to you in CPI’s learning management system:

How to Detect and Diagnose Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Tips and Tools. This course will review how to detect and diagnose OCD in adults and children. Participants will understand the importance of making a differential diagnosis and how to identify common comorbid disorders.
Exposure and Response Prevention: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: This course will describe why Exposure and Response Prevention (EX/RP), an evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy, is a first-line treatment for OCD in adults and children.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders. How to Differentiate and Treat. This course will provide clinicians with information about OCD and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Participants will be able to describe OCD and schizophrenia and how they differ in their clinical presentation and treatment.

These three courses are packaged as a curriculum in the CPI learning management system. The curriculum provides 1.5 self-study contact hours of Social Work, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and CASAC Continuing Education and is an enduring material available for a maximum of 1.5 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME).

In addition, we want to remind you about a fourth related module:

Pharmacological Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Nuts and Bolts. This course outlines evidence-based techniques for working with patients to choose an appropriate medication and dosing for the treatment of OCD and when and how to augment or switch medications if necessary. This course is an enduring material available for a maximum of 0.5 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME).

The planners and presenters do not have any financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research or services may be discussed in these materials.

To access these resources:

Log into the Learning Community using your username and password at: https://rfmh.csod.com/client/rfmh/default.aspx
Click on "Impact OCD"
Click on "Start a new online training"
Select one or more modules individually, or the full curriculum

For more information about the IMPACT-OCD initiative, please visit the IMPACT-OCD website.

For inquiries about IMPACT-OCD, contact impactocd@nyspi.columbia.edu