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This presentation is available until: May 14th, 2025
Level: Intermediate
Estimated Length: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: Educators, Behaviour Specialists, Health Professionals, Caregivers
Downloadable Certificate: Yes
Course Format: Audiovisual Media, Test
Pre-requisite: Some prior knowledge of autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis
Continuing Education: 1.5 Learning Type BACB® CE Credits
Content type: Recording
This presentation was featured at Geneva Centre for Autism's 2020 symposium. Anxiety disorders are among the most common and impairing psychiatric comorbidities seen in children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Anxiety-related issues and OCD are often misdiagnosed, unrecognized, or ignored. A major challenge for practitioners is determining whether observed symptoms are related to the core features of ASD or indicate the presence of OCD.
Learning Objectives:
- Differentiate characteristics of ASD and OCD and the importance of using function-based assessments in diagnosis
- Understand key behavioural aspects of evidence-based interventions for OCD and how to use them in non-clinical settings
- Learn the benefits of coordinating intervention between caregivers, school, and clinical team
- Explain why “treatment as usual” is insufficient for people diagnosed with both ASD and OCD
This talk will discuss practical, evidence-based recommendations for the assessment and treatment of anxiety and OCD in children and adolescents with ASD, and how practitioners and parents can foster resilience and courage through a collaborative team approach.
Speaker: Dr. Evelyn Gould
Speaker Biography: Evelyn Gould is a Clinical Behavior Analyst and Licensed Psychologist at New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA). She is also a Clinical Associate at the Child and Adolescent OCD Institute (OCDI-Jr) at McLean Hospital, and Research Associate in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Evelyn has extensive experience working with families of children with autism, OCD, and other learning and behaviour challenges across settings. Evelyn is also actively involved in research and has published articles and book chapters on parent training, clinical assessment and treatment design, and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for parents of children with ASD. She is passionate about the dissemination of evidence-based behavioural interventions, and passionate about promoting social justice and addressing issues of diversity and equity within Behaviour Analysis. Evelyn is actively involved in a variety of Special Interest Groups and Task Forces within the ABAI and ACBS communities, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.
© Geneva Centre for Autism, 2020. Portions of this audio-visual presentation were written and presented by the speaker and are used by permission of the speaker.