Assessment of OCD: Intensive Training in Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (YBOCS ©)
$300.00

HALF-DAY VIRTUAL TRAINING: CONFIDENTLY IDENTIFY AND DIAGNOSE OCD

Join us for this half-day virtual workshop designed to help mental health professionals strengthen their ability to identify OCD and accurately assess symptom severity using the Y-BOCS©. Through a deep dive into the tool and its administration, participants will gain greater confidence in recognizing and evaluating OCD in clinical practice.

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January 30, 2026

12pm - 5pm EST

Virtual Training Via Zoom

Learn the Gold-Standard Assessment for OCD

What You’ll Learn

This training is appropriate for all licensed mental health professionals, or those working under the license of a mental health professional.

In our deep-dive into assessing OCD using the YBOCS©, this workshop will broaden and deepen your understanding of the diagnosis of OCD and how to spot it in your patients.

IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF OCD

LEARN TO ADMINISTER THE YALE BROWN-OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE©

We will walk attendees through the correct administration and scoring the YBOCS© to help accurately identify patient-specific symptoms and determine the overall severity score. We will also present on how to use the information gathered in an accurate YBOCS© administration into your clinical work with OCD clients.

Course Includes

4.5 HOURS OF CEUs

COPIES OF WORKSHOP CURRICULUM

Workshop Instructors

Drs. Tsao and DiChiara have extensive experience in treating OCD with a wide range of presentations, severity levels, and treatment settings. They draw on their own clinical work, as well as their long history of supervising and consulting with OCD therapists across the world, to infuse this workshop with a high level of expert knowledge and down-to-earth, practical suggestions for delivering high-quality ERP in diverse settings.  

Steven Tsao, PhD

Dr. Tsao has extensive experience providing ERP in residential, day treatment, and outpatient settings as a part of large healthcare systems, academic medical centers, NIMH-funded studies, and group practices.

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Christina DiChiara, PsyD

Dr. DiChiara has extensive experience providing ERP in large healthcare settings, academic medical centers, and group practices as well as working with the military population and coordinating NIMH-funded ERP studies.

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 FAQs

  • Online registration will close when the workshop reaches maximum capacity, so early registration is strongly encouraged. If the workshop is not completely filled, online registration will close  24 hours prior to the start of the workshop. Registration after this deadline may be possible, but must be directly coordinated with our staff. If you are interested in registering after the online deadline has closed, please inquire at workshops@centerabt.com.

    Please note that registration is not complete, and attendance is not guaranteed until full payment is received.

  • This workshop is virtual via zoom.

  • The cancellation deadline is two weeks prior to the workshop start date. Attendees who cancel before this deadline will receive a full refund, minus a processing fee determined by Stripe. Cancellations made after the deadline will be refunded 50% of the registration cost, less the Stripe processing fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations made within two days of the workshop. However, full credit toward a future CABT workshop is available at any time. To request a cancellation, please email workshops@centerabt.com.

  • Our workshops are designed to provide comprehensive training on specialized treatments and disorders, so participants are expected to attend for the full duration, in a private space, with their camera on. CEU hours will only be awarded to those who complete the entire workshop.

  • You can call us at (610) 455-5757, email workshops@cabt.com, or fill out our contact form and a member of our team will be in touch shortly.

    • Post-Training Consultation Groups are affiliated with the workshop cohort. Consultation group participation is not transferable to other groups hosted at later dates or affiliated with other training cohorts.

    • Registration for post-training consultation groups will open immediately following the completion of the training.

    • All training participants will have the opportunity to register for up to 4 post-training consultation groups.

    • Once registration for post-training consultation groups is closed, participation in these groups cannot to be rescheduled.

  • Yes. The purpose of our workshops is to provide comprehensive training on specialized treatment and disorders. Therefore, we expect participants to plan to attend for the full workshop duration. CEU hours are only supplied to participants who attend the whole workshop. 

The Center for Anxiety and Behavior Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board Psychology and the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors to offer continuing education for social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors. The Center for Anxiety and Behavior Therapy maintains responsibility for the program(s). This training is appropriate for all licensed mental health professionals, or those working under the license of a mental health professional.