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ADAA is excited to announce the launch of its first Spanish language website page "Recursos En Español." The website page includes a brief overview of ADAA's consumer resources, downloadable copies of Spanish language ADAA brochures, as well as Spanish-language webinar and podcast. Over the course of the next year, ADAA will be developing additional consumer webinars in Spanish, courtesy of a grant provided by Anxiety.org. ADAA will also be working with the multicultural SIG on developing the deliverables under the grant. ADAA would like to thank Anxiety.org for their sponsorship and acknowledge ADAA member Dr. Luana Marques and her team from Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico including Julia Gallegos Guajardo and Kaylie Patrick for their wonderful volunteer work on translating two ADAA brochures and the website page content. Muchas gracias!
Please note: ADAA is also seeking Spanish language consumer focused blog posts and welcomes any submissions from our members. Please contact Lise Bram (lbram@adaa.org) to learn more.
ADAA is also pleased to offer a new Finnish translation of its Anxiety and Depression brochure — Masennus ja Ahdistus (Suomeksi käännös) ADAA gratefully acknowledges Marianne Heikkala and Kristian Ranta from Meru Health for their volunteer work on this project.
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ADAA blog posts (written by ADAA members both for consumers and professionals) are now enabled to accept comments. People can post comments (and share posts) on all blog posts.

Mental Health Skills for the Next Generation
Julieanne Pojas, PsyD
The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance — Revisited
Andrew Nierenberg, MD
Psychotherapy is Hard Work...Why Bother?
Patricia Thornton, PhD

Getting Involved, Making a Difference
Guest blog post by The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI
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New June and July Webinars — Just Announced!
- June 21 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
How to Optimize Your Work with Immigrants In our Current Political Climate: 5 Tips for Successful Interventions
Featuring: Heidi Montoya, PhD
This webinar will provide a brief overview of the stressors and mental health difficulties that immigration populations tend to experience and how the stressors have changed in light of the current sociopolitical climate. Additionally, strategies aimed at improving the care and wellbeing of immigrants will be reviewed. This webinar will also highlight harmful myths and erroneous beliefs about the immigration population in the U.S.
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July 20 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Clinical Kung Fu: Managing Anger in Children and Teens with Anxiety Disorders
Featuring: Alison R. Alden, PhD, and Julieanne R. Pojas, PsyD
Children and adolescents with anxiety disorders often act out or react with anger to treatment. In particular, the prospect of doing exposure and resisting compulsions or safety behaviors can engender not only fear but also anger, resistance, and defiance. This can take the form of tantrums, threats of harm to self or others when parents insist on treatment, overt treatment refusal and refusal to participate in other activities of daily living such as school. This can be difficult for clinicians and families to manage, and can lead to both treatment dropout and conflict at home. This workshop will present practical strategies that clinicians can use to deal with children;s anger, and suggestions for how to present these strategies to parents. Topics covered will include managing tantrums, what to do when a child refuses to participate in treatment or school, and managing verbal and physical aggression toward others.
View/register for all upcoming webinars.
- The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education credits for psychologists. ADAA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. APA Approval Number: 739-26163171.
- ADAA SW CPE 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 #0316.
- ADAA has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6872. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ADAA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Questions/Suggestions for topics? Please contact Mary Gies, MSW, ADAA Program Director
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Depression and Anxiety, the official journal of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, is available online. ADAA members can subscribe at no charge. The journal welcomes original research and synthetic review articles covering neurobiology (genetics and neuroimaging), epidemiology, experimental psychopathology, and treatment (psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic) aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, and related phenomena in humans.
Next month's June issue will feature articles by the following ADAA members:
ADAA members Barbara Rothbaum, Kerry Ressler and Vasiliki Michopoulos (ADAA board member) are co-authors on a research study focused on mobile assessment of heightened skin conductance in posttraumatic stress disorder. Jasmine Turna and Beth Patterson co-author a research article on ecological momentary interventions for depression and anxiety. Michael Van Ameringen (co-chair of ADAA's Mental Health App Committee which reviews apps that are then posted on ADAA's website) is the lead author of a study on the current state of mobile apps for DSM-5 OCD, PTSD, anxiety and mood disorders.
THESE EARLY VIEW ARTICLES ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON WILEY ONLINE LIBRARY
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Latent structure of negative valence measures in childhood
Minyoung Lee, Steven H. Aggen, Dever M. Carney, Shannon Hahn, Elizabeth Moroney, Laura Machlin, Melissa A. Brotman, Kenneth E. Towbin, Ellen Leibenluft, Daniel S. Pine, Roxann Roberson-Nay and John M. Hettema
Version of Record online: 22 MAY 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22656
Meet the Journal's Editorial Board
Learn more about the Journal.
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Save the Date!
April 5-8
Treatment-Resistance in Anxiety and Depression: Challenges and Opportunities
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Registration is now open.
Visit the ADAA Submissions website page to review submission guidelines, session types, sample abstracts and review criteria for 2018 Anxiety and Depression Conference. Submission site opens June 12.
Visit our conference website for more details.
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The Medical News
Pupil dilation could identify which individuals are at greatest risk for depression following disaster-related stress, and help lead to targeted interventions, according to new research from Binghamton University. The researchers recruited 51 women who were living in the greater Binghamton, New York, area at the time of a catastrophic 2011 flood.
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HealthDay News
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Science Daily
Probiotics may relieve symptoms of depression, as well as help gastrointestinal upset, research from McMaster University has found. In a study published in the medical journal Gastroenterology, researchers found that twice as many adults with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) reported improvements from co-existing depression when they took a specific probiotic than adults with IBS who took a placebo.
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HealthDay News
People with lung cancer have a strikingly higher-than-normal risk of suicide, a new study finds. While a cancer diagnosis on its own significantly raises the risk of suicide, the study found that a lung cancer diagnosis raised the odds of suicide by over four times compared to people in the general population.
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UPI
The ancient martial art of tai chi may go beyond mindfulness, as a new study shows it could also significantly reduce depression symptoms in Chinese-Americans. A pilot study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital enrolled Chinese Americans in a 12-week tai chi program to determine the effects of tai chi has on depression by itself. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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Medical Xpress
Students who feel lonely are at greater risk of developing mental health problems, according to a new study led by the University of Southampton. Psychologists surveyed 454 undergraduates from across the U.K. over a year and found that the greater their feelings of loneliness, the more likely they were to experience an increase in anxiety, stress, depression and general mental health problems over that time.
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Swimming World
Andy Ross writes: I took a run today around my campus' lake. Last week I graduated college and finished my last semester with my first 4.0 in the history of my life. I was looking at everything around the lake; the turtles sunbathing on the submerged logs; the ducks walking around the perimeter. They all looked so peaceful and calm. They reminded me of the small beauties in life.
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Quartz
In September 2015, Mari Andrew was recovering from the loss of her father, a painful breakup and some serious health issues. She was suffering, badly, when a line from Cheryl Strayed’s advice column leapt off the page: "This is how you get unstuck... You reach." And reach she did. Finally, she ordered a cheap set of watercolor paints from Amazon and gave herself an assignment: make one drawing a day.
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