Mental Health Webinar: OCD: What is it and How is it treated

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Hi, good evening. Good evening everyone and thank you for joining us this evening. The topic of tonight is OCD, what is it and how is it treated? We're going to give it another 2 minutes before we get started just allow people to come on and not to miss. Okay, we're going to just wait 1 more minute and then we'll get started. Thank you everyone for those who joined on time. Okay, let's get started. Good evening everyone. My name is Sarah Becker. I'm a child and adolescent psychiatrist based in New York, and I'm also the director of mental health for JOWMA, the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association. Thank you, everybody, for joining tonight. Tonight, we are fortunate to be joined by two experts. The um I'm going to start by introducing, in order of appearance, Dr. Alyssa Kushner, who is a psychologist. She earned her bachelor's degree in She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Stern College for Women and completed her master's degree in PsyD in clinical clinical psychology at La Salle University. Following her training, she worked for several years at the Center for Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania. She's currently a licensed psychologist at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, where she serves as a national consultant for evidence-based training and treatment for depression and safety planning. and safety planning. She also is the assistant director of the APA-accredited psychology internship training program. Her private practice is focused on the treatment of Orthodox patients with OCD and anxiety disorder. Additionally, we are joined by Dr. Rebecca Eichenbaum. Dr. Eichenbaum is a board-certified adult psychiatrist, and she's currently completing additional training, a fellowship, in child and adolescent psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She completed her residency training in

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1. 0:11Hi, good evening. Good evening everyone and thank you for joining us this evening. The topic…
2. 7:03first of all very glad to be here tonight. Thank you so much for including me.…
3. 13:10going to go up quite as high cuz I've seen that I can handle it. I've…
4. 19:23go to a patient's house and touch all of the things that they have in their…
5. 25:39It would have been dirt and germs and instead it's concerned about kashrus, right? It's not…
6. 31:50anxiety um and to make a lot of progress in the quality of someone's life. Uh…
7. 38:07individual OCD might be caused by the same problem. But, we don't know all this for…
8. 44:16also have to think about whether this person could engage in therapy or seek out therapy…
9. 50:28OCD will have increased emotional reaction to things that seem quite minor. Keep in mind that…
10. 56:36used in pregnancy and when breastfeeding. Um So, thank you so much. Um tried to get…

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