Events & Webinars

Working with police officers and public safety professionals presents a number of challenges for mental health professionals. There is a strong stigma among such individuals that serves as a major obstacle to begin treatment, as well as to continue to remain engaged in treatment. Furthermore, there are cultural dynamics that influence various aspects of a therapeutic relationship. Mental health professionals currently working and/or interested in working with this population need to continually develop cultural competence. This workshop aims to provide information that will assist in that goal.

This program teaches clinicians how to recognize and treat contamination OCD, a common but challenging-to-treat form of obsessive-compulsive disorder that represents roughly half of its cases. This course focuses on the functional-based Mastery treatment approach, a synthesis of exposure and response prevention (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and emerging literature on the use of judicious safety behaviors to improve functioning in cases such as disgust, neurodiversity and more where triggers do not directly habituate. This is a humane and well-tolerated approach that has now been taught and implemented at major clinics nationwide for cases of contamination OCD.