Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy - September 28, 2017, 9:00 - 10:30 AM 

Presenter Patrick McGrath, Ph.D. will give an overview of the use of Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He will review the ethics of using ERP, what ERP is and is not, how to set up a basic ERP hierarchy, and how to make ERP maximally effective for your anxious clients. Feel free to bring cases, as he will be available for a Q&Q session to help you jump start ERP work with your clients.

Dr. McGrath is the Assistant Vice President of Residential Services at AMITA Health Foglia Family Foundation Residential Treatment Services, the ClinicalDirector of the AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital's Center for Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Program, and President of OCD-Midwest, an affiliate of the International OCD Foundation. He's the author of a stress management workbook titled Don't Try Harder, Try Different as well as The OCD Answer Book. Dr. McGrath has also been featured on the Discovery Health Channel's documentary "Anxious" and on The Learning Channel's "Hoarding: Buried Alive." Dr. McGrath trains students and therapists across the country in the treatment of Anxiety Disorders. He is also the president of a Private Practice Group in Illinois called Anxiety Centers of Illinois.

There is a $25.00 class fee (no fee for 1.0 CEUs), payable by credit card (via E-Pay) after submitting registration, or by check. Payment is due before the class date. DuPage County Employees: Contact Michele Piver regarding payment.

 Sorry - no refunds for cancellations within 48 hours of class date. Please make checks payable to: DuPage County Health Department, Attn:  Michele Piver.