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Poster sessions are lively, engaging sessions promoting the exchange of new research findings in a visual format. More than 300 presenters discuss their findings with colleagues in two posters sessions. These interactive sessions provide an opportunity to interact face-to-face with researchers, to ask questions, discuss findings and share information.
The submission deadline for research posters is Wednesday, Nov. 1. Submit your poster abstracts on anxiety and depression, including generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, PTSD, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias, and related disorders in adults and children.
Check out "How to Submit" for review criteria and sample poster abstract, and poster guidelines for general information.
Learn more about poster sessions.
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 CDLP Program — Donald F. Klein Award — Andrew Burns Scholarship
Promoting careers and professional development has been a central focus for ADAA since our inception in 1998. To date, the ADAA awards program has provided more than $1 million to 400 aspiring professionals and given them access to a professional home, unique pairings with senior mentors from our membership and participation at the annual conference. All award winners gain VIP access to the 2018 Annual Conference, receive complimentary registration and will be recognized during the conference's opening session. Download a one-page flyer about the awards to share with colleagues.
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 April 5-8, 2018
Treatment-Resistance in Anxiety and Depression: Challenges and Opportunities
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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- How to Optimize Your Work with Immigrants In our Current Political Climate: 5 Tips for Successful Interventions
Sept. 14 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
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. This webinar is eligible for 1 CE.
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OCD & Strategic Pressure: Working with Treatment Resistant Children & Adult Children Living @Home
Sept. 22 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring:Jonathan Grayson, PhD
 This webinar will discuss identifying clients for whom Strategic Pressure (a treatment approach that can be used by therapists to work with the parents of treatment refusing children to pressure them into treatment) is suitable and how to educate your partners who are the parents of the treatment resistant/refusing child, in their new role. The steps to institute Strategic Pressure will be presented and illustrated with case illustrations. There are a number of phases in treatment from initial presentation to the gradual transition of the treatment refuser to a treatment user. This presentation will help therapists to navigate all of the pitfalls for each of these. Eligible for 1 CE.
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Marketing Your Practice Online: Social Media and Beyond
Oct. 4 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Helene Sobin, MBA and Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP
 Ms. Sobin and Dr. Sachs will share insights on the importance of creating an online brand and presence, as well as strategies on how to effectively market your practice on-line.
Although social media can be an important component to promoting your practice, without a good brand identity and on-line presence it can be difficult to break through the clutter.
Learn about important actions you can take to strengthen your brand, clarify your message, and claim online profiles such as Healthgrades, Google My Business and Yelp. Ms. Sobin offers practice-building advice to mental health professionals and physicians throughout the country, providing her clients with customized marketing strategies that attract new patients and increase profitability. Dr. Sachs will describe her process in developing a strong brand with a clear target audience, with a consideration in balancing privacy, credibility, professionalism and personal style. She will discuss how she has used Twitter, Facebook and other online tools to enhance her reputation and increase referrals. We will review various social media channels, including LinkedIn, Facebook. Twitter and Instagram, and provide suggestions about which might be most relevant for clinicians. This webinar is not eligible for CEs.
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Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry on Management of Treatment- Resistant Depression
Oct. 18 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD
 This presentation will focus on the factors associated with treatment-resistance including a history of child abuse and neglect, prominent anxiety and certain comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions. The importance of accurate diagnosis will be highlighted including family history and evaluation for medical disorders associated with poor treatment response such as hypothyroidism and hypogonadism. Once a patient has failed an adequate trial of an antidepressant, a decision to either: 1) increase the dose of the current antidepressant, 2) engage in combination therapy of the current agent and another antidepressant or evidence-based psychotherapy (e.g. CBT), 3) utilize an augmentation strategy by adding an agent (e.g. lithium or T3) that is not an effective antidepressant, but when added to an antidepressant converts non-remitters to remitters, 4) switch to an entirely different antidepressant class, e.g. SSRI→SNRI or SSRI→MAOI 5) use a somatic non-pharmacological approach such as rTMS, VNS, or ECT. The evidence for these approaches will be summarized.
Finally, the status of experimental treatments including ketamine and DBS will be discussed. Eligible for 1 CE.
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PTSD: From Cells to Communities
Nov. 2 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Dr. Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD
 PTSD is common, debilitating and poses a significant risk for suicide. Furthermore, while it is common in veterans, many are not aware of its prevalence in America's impoverished, urban neighborhoods that have high rates of violence. Several risk factors for the development of posttraumatic stress disorder in trauma survivors have been identified. These include severity and duration of the trauma, childhood abuse and neglect and lack of family or social support. Understanding the role of violence, poverty, and other components of high-risk environments is important for progress in stemming the cycles of risk in communities. Dr. Ressler will highlight recent progress in fear learning and memory, differential genetic susceptibility to disorders of fear, and how these findings are being applied to the understanding, treatment and possible prevention of fear disorders. Eligible for 1 CE.
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Just Announced!
Acupressure, PTSD and Emotional Freedom Technique — An Innovative Approach to Healing
Nov. 16 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Joan Kaylor, LPC, MSEd, DCEP
 This webinar will start by touching upon the history and basis of acupressure. In 1972 Chinese acupuncture and acupressure were brought to the U.S. following Richard Nixon's visit to China. Today acupuncture and acupressure are accepted as methods of healing various medical conditions such as for the treatment of PTSD, anxiety and depression. With a focus on PTSD, there is robust meta-analysis research using brain imaging that shows the effectiveness of acupoint stimulation in treatment looking at pre and post effects of stimulation. There is equally strong data on the effectiveness of acupuncture. The webinar will also look at the current research on the treatment of PTSD and a specific acupoint stimulation technique known as Emotional Freedom Techniques that has been shown to work in a fair range of people. This webinar is eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
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Just Announced!
Treating the Family: Addressing Family Accommodation in the Treatment of OCD
Jan. 11, 2018 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Dr. Jami Socha, PhD & Laura Lokers, LMSW
 Family accommodation is generally defined as any way in which family member(s) play a role in the maintenance of obsessions and compulsions through taking part in rituals, permitting avoidance of anxiety-provoking stimuli or modifying routines to accommodate OCD behaviors. Addressing family accommodation is therefore an important component in treating OCD, and neglecting the role of family members can undermine Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). The webinar is aimed at helping clinicians identify and address family accommodation as it relates to OCD. Case examples — representing both adult and child cases — will be used to illustrate the challenges and successes of addressing accommodation. Eligible for 1 CE/CE hour.
Additional upcoming 2017/2018 webinars. Confirmed dates/times and registration information will be posted on the ADAA Professional Education Webinar website page as they are finalized.
- December 7 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET: How to Conquer Negative Thinking Habits and Depression Through CBT. Mary K. Alvord, PhD
- December 14 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET: Mining for Gold: How to Work Around Traditional Research Funding Sources by Using Crowdfunding and Novel Strategies to Get Your Work Funded. Bruce Riser, PhD
- Just Announced! January 25 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET: Exercise and Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Jasper A. Smits, PhD and Scarlett Baird, MA
Webinar CE Information
- 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.
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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.
August 2017 Issue — Volume 34, Issue 8
Issue Focus: Impact of Childhood Maltreatment and Traumatic Stress
Research articles in this issue include two contributions by ADAA members: John C. Markowitz (History of Sexual Trauma Moderates Psychotherapy Outcome for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder), and Gregory S. Chasson (Transdiagnostic Emotional Vulnerabilities Linking Obsessive-Compulsive and Depressive Symptoms in a Community-Based Sample of Adolescents).
Sample Articles
Meta-analysis of interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in adult survivors of mass violence in low- and middle-income countries, Nexhmedin Morina P.h.D., Mina Malek, MS, Angela Nickerson, Ph.D., Richard A. Bryant, Ph.D
Associations of childhood bullying victimization with lifetime suicidal behaviors among new U.S. Army soldiers, Laura Campbell-Sills Ph.D., Ronald C. Kessler Ph.D., Robert J. Ursano M.D., Anthony J. Rosellini Ph.D., Tracie O. Afifi Ph.D., Lisa J. Colpe Ph.D., M.P.H., Steven G. Heeringa Ph.D., Matthew K. Nock Ph.D., Nancy A. Sampson B.A., Jitender Sareen M.D., Michael Schoenbaum Ph.D., Xiaoying Sun M.S., Sonia Jain Ph.D., Murray B. Stein M.D., M.P.H., the Army STARRS Collaborators
Predictors of PTSD 40 years after combat: Findings from the National Vietnam Veterans longitudinal study, Maria M. Steenkamp Ph.D., William E. Schlenger Ph.D., Nida Corry Ph.D., Clare Henn-Haase Psy.D., Meng Qian Ph.D., Meng Li M.A., Danny Horesh Ph.D., Karen-Inge Karstoft Ph.D., Christianna Williams Ph.D., Chia-Lin Ho Ph.D., Arieh Shalev M.D., Richard Kulka Ph.D., Charles Marmar M.D.
Learn more about the Journal
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The Peace of Mind Foundation in Houston, Texas invites you to join them at their free San Antonio OCD Conference on Saturday, September 9, 2017, from 9am-5pm at the Hotel Valencia Riverwalk. Professionals, OCD/mental health sufferers, and caregivers are encouraged to attend one or both sessions. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. Free 3 hour CE credits for counselors, social workers, and psychologists will be offered. For questions, please email info@peaceofmind.com or call 346-701-8115. Click here to learn more.
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By Christina Nava
 Recently on Twitter, a woman shared an email she received from her CEO after informing him that she would be taking two sick days off work to focus on her mental health. The CEO responded by thanking her for shedding light on the importance of mental healthcare. The tweet went viral, sparking a wave of praise for the employer's reaction, as well as stirring up a nationwide discussion about the way mental health is handled in the workplace.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Childhood trauma affects the volumes of gray matter in the amygdala and hippocampus differently in patients with bipolar disorder than healthy controls, according to a study published recently in Bipolar Disorders. The study assessed 105 outpatients with bipolar disorder type 1 (BP-I) or bipolar disorder type II (BP-II), diagnosed according to DSM-IV-TR criteria, and 113 healthy controls (HC).
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Psychiatry Advisor
When screening for suicidal intentions, psychiatrists are most likely to use questions biased toward confirming patients are not suicidal, rather than identifying patients who may be considering suicide, according to results of a new study published in the journal BioMed Central Psychiatry.
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Quartz
Sociologists have long been warning about the dangers of increased isolation thanks to aging populations, scattered families and cultures that promote the individual over the collective. Now, new research analyzing previous studies suggests people who fall into the loneliness trap are 50 percent more likely to suffer an early death than those who remain socially connected.
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Clinical Advisor
Sugar consumption from sweetened beverages and foods is associated with an increased risk of mood disorders, researchers reported in Scientific Reports. Researchers sought to investigate systematically cross-sectional and prospective associations between sweetened food and beverage consumption, common mental disorders and depression.
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U.S. News & World Report
The connection between alcohol use and mental health disorders like depression is pretty well-understood. Pot? Not so much. And that is somewhat problematic. As marijuana becomes increasingly destigmatized, not to mention decriminalized, in much of the country, understanding its association with mental health is more important than ever.
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HealthDay News
The photos you post on Instagram can contain telltale visual clues that help predict if you're suffering from depression, a new study reports. Computer software designed to scan photos for these hidden signals accurately diagnosed people with depression seven out of 10 times, said lead researcher Andrew Reece. The study was published Aug. 7 in the journal EPJ Data Science.
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Psych Central
University of Illinois researchers report the trauma associated with a sexual assault places victims at increased risk of a wide range of mental health conditions. Investigators analyzed nearly 200 studies involving more than 230,00 adult participants and discovered the elevated risk was apparent regardless of how a researcher may have defined the sexual assault.
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Politico
About 15 years ago, Sue McElroy, a psychiatrist in Mason, Ohio, started noticing a pattern. People came to see her because they were depressed, but they frequently had a more visible ailment as well: They were very overweight. McElroy was convinced there had to be a connection.
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Today
The symptoms of depression are often thought to manifest mentally and emotionally, but those who suffer from it can be affected physically as well. Kayley Olsson, a hairstylist based in Waterloo, Iowa, and her fellow student-stylists at Capri College helped to give a 16-year-old client suffering from depression a very special makeover for her school picture day.
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The Washington Post
The movie "To the Bone" depicts the life of a young woman struggling with an eating disorder and has sparked much conversation about an illness that affects 1 out of every 10 Americans at some point during their life. Now, an eating disorder app could help the two-thirds of people with eating disorders who never receive treatment due to stigma, lack of health insurance or lack of resources, said Claire Mysko, chief executive officer of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).
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