Clinician Appreciation Day 2025

Clinician Appreciation Day is an opportunity to gather with fellow clinicians, learn from experts, and connect over lunch.

9:00 am: Registration and Light Fare

9:30 am: Training Begins (see description below)

12:45 pm: Lunch (included in registration)

2:00 pm: Event Ends

Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) affect millions of people worldwide. As many as 2 in 50 people engage in body focused behaviors such hair pulling, skin picking, and nail biting resulting in hair loss, scaring, infections, and sometimes abdominal or plastic surgery. This training will provide an overview of Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors. It will include current research, state of the art treatment approaches for these disorders, including assessing and improving motivation, and using advanced techniques for treatment.

Level: Beginner

Learning Objectives

After attending this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the etiology, prevalence, and conceptualization of BFRBs.
• Conceptulaize these disorders using a function based comprehensive approach.
• Apply knowledge gathered from the functional analysis to prescribe useful and effective interventions that are tailored to the individual.

Course Outline

9:30 am: Diagnosis of BFRBs

9:40 am: About BFRBs

10:00 am: Treatment Preparation

10:35 am: SCAMP Introduction

11:00 am: Break

11:15 am: Functional Analysis and Intervention Selection

12:00 pm: Assess Progress, Clinical Decision Making, and Relapse Prevention

12:30 pm: Discussion

Ms. Ruth Golomb is a senior clinician and supervisor at BTC where she has worked since the mid 1980’s. Ms. Golomb specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adults. She is a frequent speaker at national conferences covering many topics including , Sensory Regulation and Anxiety, (OCD), BFRBs and managing anxiety disorders in the classroom. In addition having articles published in journals and newsletters, Ms. Golomb is an author of multiple books, most recently, Overcoming Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors, and Comprehensive Behavior (ComB) Treatment for BFRBs. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the TLC Foundation for BFRBs .

This course is provided free to current Catholic Charities of Baltimore employees and for a fee to non-employees. Registration and additional information, including cost is available via Eventbrite. Registration closes at 11:59 pm on March 31, 2025 or when space is full, whichever comes first. Refunds may be requested via the Eventbrite platform until March 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm; after that date no refund will be given. Please contact Johanna Miller at [email protected] with any questions, concerns, or requests for special accommodations.

Course Completion & CE Info

Course completion requirements: Participants must attend the entire course and complete a course evaluation to earn CE credit. Certificates of completion will be e-mailed within 10 business days

This course qualifies for 3 contact hours. See below for specific approvals.

Associated Catholic Charities (Catholic Charities of Baltimore) is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for 3 hours in Category 1 continuing education units.

Catholic Chariites of Baltimore (Associated Catholic Charities)

2300B Dulaney Valley Road

Timonium, MD 21093

667-600-2000

[email protected]

www.cc-md.org

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St Vincent's Villa, 2600 Pot Spring Road, Timonium, United States