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ForwardHigh Standards vs. High Stakes in Sport: How OCD Hijacks Performance and How Treatment Restores it
High standards can fuel excellence in sport, but when performance routines become rigid, fear-driven, and compulsive, they may signal something far different than healthy perfectionism.
This workshop explores how OCD can masquerade as discipline in athletes, distinguishing adaptive high performance standards from clinically impairing rituals that hijack focus, flexibility, and execution. Attendees will examine key differences between OCD, perfectionism, and sport culture, learn how compulsions interfere with performance and identity, and gain evidence-based strategies for restoring freedom through ethical, sport-informed Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and contemporary OCD treatment principles.
Target Audience
Mental Health workers, clinicians, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, educational workers.
Learning Objectives
Differentiate OCD symptoms from adaptive perfectionism and high-performance standards within athletic environments. Identify how compulsive rituals and obsessional thinking can impair athletic performance, psychological flexibility, and identity development. Apply evidence-based treatment principles, including sport-informed ERP and contemporary OCD interventions, to support athletes experiencing OCD-related performance interference.
Dina Nunziato, PhD, LCSW; Cali Werner, PhD, LCSW-S
https://anxietyinstitute.com/
Disclosures
It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Dina Nunziato, PhD, LCSW
Cali Werner, PhD, LCSW-S
Dina Nunziato, PhD, LCSW
Cali Werner, PhD, LCSW-S
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and JP. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
New York State Psychologists
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists. # PSY 0290
Awarded credit: 1.5 contact hour(s).
New York State Social Workers
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0233.
Awarded credit: 1.5 contact hour(s).
Available Credit
- 1.00 APA CE
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs. - 1.50 ASWB continuing education credits
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AKH Inc. Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education credits. - 1.50 Attendance
Credits: 1.50
- 1.50 NY Psychologists
1.50