Advanced Training in OCD with Adolescents

For the past year, the question I have heard most often from colleagues is some version of this: is there a training that goes with the book?

The honest answer is that I was not sure there should be. Books and training courses are different things, and it is easy to dilute one by trying to turn it into the other.

But the question kept coming. And eventually I realised it was not really a question about the book at all. It was a question about a specific clinical problem.

What do you do when ERP is the right treatment, but you cannot get it started? Or when it starts well and then stalls for reasons that are hard to name? Or when a young person is engaged, the family is on board, the hierarchy looks reasonable, and somehow nothing moves?

That is the gap the training tries to address.

What the training is

Advanced Clinical Practice in Adolescent OCD is a two-day live online training built around the position-based framework from the Routledge book. It is not a lecture version of the book. It is a practical translation of the model into clinical decision-making — when to begin ERP, how to pace it, what to do when the therapeutic relationship itself is the thing that needs attention first.

The two days include annotated clinical transcripts, live demonstrations of technique, and small group formulation work. I will be joined by Dr Misbah Gladwyn-Khan and Dr Tony Brown, both of whom bring significant clinical depth to the work.

No psychoanalytic background is required. What matters is a willingness to sit with the question of what the OCD is doing for a young person, rather than only what it looks like.

Who it is for

Psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, and other practitioners working with adolescents who present with OCD or OCD-related difficulties. Suitable whether you work in CAMHS or in private practice.

The practicalities

The training runs three times in 2027, with a maximum of 25 participants per cohort.

Cohort 1: Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 March

Cohort 2: Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 September

Cohort 3: Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November

The cost is £300 per person. This includes a participant workbook and a CPD certificate confirming two days of advanced training delivered by HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologists.

Booking is through Eventbrite. Places are limited and will not be held without payment. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986136801639?aff=oddtdtcreator If you would like to read more about the thinking behind the framework before booking, the book is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1041219199

And there is a longer post about how the book came to be written here: https://www.lewtonspsychologypractice.com/post/understanding-intrusive-thoughts-and-compulsions-in-adolescents-release-on-june-25th

I am looking forward to doing this work with people who care about getting it right.