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ADAA
ADAA Statement on PTSD, Panic, and Sexual Assault.
As clinicians, scientists, and professors who are experts in the fields of anxiety, depression, and trauma, the recent media coverage of trauma and sexual assault have moved us to comment, not on the particulars discussed, but on the potential impact on the patients to whom we have committed our careers to help. Read the full statement here.
 #SocialAnxietyADAA Twitter Chat
Tomorrow, October 11: 2-3pm ET
Social anxiety disorder affects approximately 15 million American adults and is the second most commonly diagnosed anxiety disorder following specific phobias. ADAA’s twitter chat will be hosted by ADAA members Dr. Debra Kissen and Holly Scott, who will be answering questions about social anxiety and sharing tips and strategies. We encourage our members and other mental health professionals to participate and offer their expertise. Please spread the word to your communities! Learn more here.
Follow us @Got_Anxiety for more updates. Use the hashtag #SocialAnxietyADAA to follow along with the chat, and to participate!
ADAA
#ADAA2019 Poster Submissions — November 1st Deadline!
Poster sessions are lively, engaging sessions promoting the exchange of new research findings in a visual format. More than 450 presenters will discuss their findings with colleagues in two posters sessions. These interactive sessions provide an opportunity to interact face-to-face with researchers, ask questions, discuss findings and share information. View the "How to Submit" Guidelines for New Research Posters.
Invited Speakers and Special Sessions — As of October 10, 2018
ADAA is very excited about our robust program of invited speakers and sessions at #ADAA2019.
- Keynote Address: Potential Drugs of Abuse as Antidepressants and Anxiolytics: Pluses and Minuses
- Jerilyn Ross Lecture: A lively panel — Ketamine and Mind-Altering Drugs in Treating Anxiety and Depression: Potential Roles and Pitfalls
- New this year! Suicide Prevention Program will share cutting-edge research and clinical initiatives aimed to improve the understanding of why people die by suicide and reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors on a large scale.
- New this year! Science Spotlights feature speakers who are conducting paradigm shifting research that will help shape new directions in understanding and treating depression and anxiety disorders.
- Scientific Research Symposium: New Developments in Stress and Inflammation with a focus on inflammatory processes in stress, anxiety, and depression.
- Timely Topics for Clinicians: Experts provide accessible, evidence-based information on timely topics encountered in the practice setting such as: MDMA development for PTSD and Ketamine for depression.
- Master Clinician Sessions educate, inspire, and challenge you to solve problems and achieve breakthroughs.
Thank you to ADAA's Current #ADAA2019 Sponsors
Diamond Sponsors
Rogers Behavioral Health
Silver Sponsors
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Houston OCD Program
Bronze Sponsors
Anxiety.org
McLean Hospital
Thank You to ADAA's Current #ADAA2019 Exhibitors
Alpine Academy
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Beck Institute
Freespira
Houston OCD Program
McLean Hospital
Mountain Valley Treatment Center
Rogers Behavioral Health
For details on sponsorship or exhibiting opportunities, please contact Gabby Oved at goved@adaa.org or 240-485-1031.
ADAA
ADAA offers a variety of webinars for mental health professionals. Most ADAA professional webinars offer CE credits.
Upcoming Fall Webinars
Next Thursday, October 18, 2018 — Philip Held, PhD and Brian Klassen, PhD present: Identifying and Treating Moral Injury-Based Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Military Service Members and Veterans
Eligible for 1 CE/CE Hour
November 8, 2018 — Lynne Siqueland, PhD and Tamar Chanksy, PhD present:
Empowering Families in the Face of Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS)
Eligible for 1 CE/CE Hour
Just added! Thursday, December 6, 2018 — Jordan W. Smoller, MD, ScD presents: Genetics of Depression and Anxiety: What Do Clinicians Need to Know?
Eligible for 1 CE/CE Hour
Recent ADAA Recordings
Diagnosing and Treating ADHD and Comorbidity Conditions in Preschoolers
Presented by Vera Joffe, PhD, ABPP
This webinar is eligible for 1 CE hour
How to Best Understand and Address Selective Mutism in Younger Children, Tweens, and Teens
Presented by Shelley Avny, PhD
This webinar is eligible for 1 CE hour
Addressing Cognitive Dimensions of Academic & School Anxiety
Presented by Dean McKay, PhD, ABPP
This webinar is eligible for 1 CE hour
ADAA
 We encourage our new members to log into ADAA’s membership platform to view and download our new membership guide and to learn about the many member benefits available to you (including special offers from TherapyNotes, conference audio-recordings, a special consumer brochure sale and much more…).
ADAA Child and Adolescent SIG News
Congratulations to ADAA member Emily Bilek, PhD, winner of the Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group (SIG) Student/Early Career Award! Emily will present her work on "Piloting a Self-distancing Augmentation to Exposure Therapy" at the Child and Adolescent SIG meeting on Friday, March 29, at #ADAA2019 in Chicago, IL. The Child and Adolescent SIG hopes to see you there!
New ADAA Member Blog Posts
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…You Are the Ugliest of All Says Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
by Eda Gorbis, PhD, LMFT
Anxiously Awaiting Your Criticism...
by Dominique Apollon, M.ED
Coping with the Loss of a Loved One
by Rachel Aredia, LCPC
Have you published a new book for consumers or professionals? Please let us know so we can highlight your new publication here and on the ADAA website.
ADAA
Have you been quoted in a recent news article/story? Please let us know so we can share your news with your ADAA colleagues and with our public community (here, through the website and via our social media platforms).
10/02/2018 British University Wants to Replace Clapping With Jazz Hands' for a Very Serious Reason, Yahoo, Karen Cassiday, PhD, ACT
10/01/2018 Forward Motion FOMO, Montgomery Community Media TV, Beth Salcedo, MD
10/01/2018 Understanding Anxiety in Children and Teens, Child Mind Institute, Beth Salcedo, MD
10/01/2018 Should We Force Shy Kids to Do Class Presentations?, Slate, Jonathan Dalton, PhD
10/01/2018 How to Help a Child With an Anxiety Disorder, The New York Times, Rachel Busman, PsyD
09/27/2018 Donald Trump Jr. Mocks Christine Blasey Ford Over "Selective Fear of Flying," CBS News, Martin Seif, PhD, ABPP
09/26/2018 15 Little Habits You Won't Believe Are Signs Of Anxiety, Bustle, Alicia Clark, PsyD and Helen Odessky, PsyD
09/26/2018 13 Relationship Mistakes Someone Might Make If They Have Anxiety, Bustle, Helen Odessky, PsyD
09/24/2018 Intensive Outpatient Treatment Reduced Vets' Symptoms of PTSD Within Weeks, BBRFoundation.org, Mark Pollack, MD and Alyson Kay Zalta, PhD
09/19/2018 9 Fascinating Ways To Tell The Difference Between Gut Instincts & Anxiety, According To Experts, Bustle, Helen Odessky, PsyD and Melissa Weinberg, MA, LCPC
09/19/2018 How To Not Freak Out When Waiting For Test Results, Refinery29, Kevin Chapman, PhD
ADAA
Depression and Anxiety, the official journal of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, is available online at no charge to ADAA members. 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. Per the ISI Journal Citation Reports Rankings for 2017, the Depression and Anxiety impact factor is 5.043. The journal ranks 19 of 142 in psychiatry journals; 8 of 77 in psychology journals; 5 of 121 for psychology clinical journals, and 15 of 139 for psychiatry social science journals. Google Scholar psychiatry journal ranking (spring 2017) ranked Depression and Anxiety No. 19 of 20.
Murray B. Stein, MD, MPH — Editor-in-Chief
Meet the Journal Editorial Board
October 2018 Issue — Volume 35, Issue 9
Focus On: It's All About Treatment
From this issue:
These Early View articles are now available for viewing:
- Smaller hippocampal CA1 subfield volume in posttraumatic stress disorder
Lyon W. Chen, Delin Sun, Sarah L. Davis, Courtney C. Haswell, Emily L. Dennis, Chelsea A. Swanson, Christopher D. Whelan, Boris Gutman, Neda Jahanshad, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, Paul Thompson, Mid‐Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup , H. Ryan Wagner, Philipp Saemann, Kevin S. LaBar, Rajendra A. Morey
Version of Record online: 26 September 2018
- Intrinsic functional and structural connectivity of emotion regulation networks in obsessive‐compulsive disorder
Maria Picó‐Pérez, Jonathan Ipser, Paul Taylor, Pino Alonso, Clara López‐Solà, Eva Real, Cinto Segalàs, Annerine Roos, José M. Menchón, Dan J. Stein, Carles Soriano‐Mas
Version of Record online: 25 September 2018
ADAA
Mental Health America 2019 Call for Proposals
Mental Health America's (MHA's) 2019 Annual Conference, Dueling Diagnoses: Mental Health and Chronic Conditions in Children and Adults will take place June 13-15, 2019 in Washington, D.C., and will bring together hundreds of MHA affiliates, peers, providers, government officials, media and more from across the country to explore the dynamic that exists between persistent conditions — including those that are broader in nature — and the intersection of these conditions with mental health.
MHA is interested in exploring the dynamic that exists between persistent conditions—including those that are broader in nature—and the intersection of these conditions with mental health.
Deadline for Submission: Nov. 30, 2018. Notification of Acceptance: Jan. 18, 2019
To learn more about the conference or to submit a proposal visit www.mentalhealthamerica.net/apply.
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is now accepting proposals for NEDA's 2018 Feeding Hope Fund for Clinical Research Grant Program! The program supports research projects that cover a range of research domains relevant to the treatment and prevention of eating disorders. The deadline to apply is next Monday, October 15, 2018. Learn more here.
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Psych Central
A comprehensive review of existing studies has led the European Psychiatric Association to issue new guidelines to promote exercise as a key adjunctive treatment for mental health conditions. The meta-review led the team of scientists to suggest that a regime of structured exercise should be added to standard medication and psychotherapy. The study appears in the journal European Psychiatry.
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Forbes
Depression is all too prevalent in the U.S., and gone untreated, can result in some very negative consequences. In the recent year we have seen some tragic consequences of depression, so finding a way to combat it on a global level is of great significance. Researchers at MIT found a way to use neural networks to recognize speech patterns in people that are indicative in depression.
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Science Daily
Women in late pregnancy during darker months of the year may have a greater risk of developing postpartum depression once their babies are born. This is consistent with what is known about the relationship between exposure to natural light and depression among adults in the general population. New findings published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine should lead clinicians to encourage at-risk women to increase their exposure to natural daylight and vitamin D.
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Science Daily
The link between mental health disorders and substance abuse is well-documented. Nearly one in 12 adults in the U.S is depressed, and opioid-related deaths are skyrocketing. As these numbers continue to climb, some mental health professionals have started to wonder if there's a link between the two. According to a new study published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, the link is strong.
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Medical Xpress
Women sexually abused in childhood and adolescence who suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder benefit significantly from Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Trauma, according to a Rutgers researcher. The study appears in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
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Psychiatry Advisor
The Child Behavior Checklist has demonstrated predictive power for identifying children with subsyndromal symptoms at risk for major depressive disorder, according to a study published in The Journal of Pediatrics. Participants in this study were originally recruited to take part in a longitudinal study of youth with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as their immediate family, for a 10-year follow-up.
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Psychiatry Advisor
In individuals with multiple sclerosis, depressive symptoms are more disabling than symptoms of anxiety, and therefore require priority for treatment, according to results of a study published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Depression and anxiety are common in patients with MS and contribute to the overall morbidity of the disease.
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Psych Central
New research suggests women in late pregnancy during darker months of the year may have a greater risk of developing postpartum depression once their babies are born. The finding is similar to what is known about the relationship between exposure to natural light and depression among adults in the general population. The research appears in a special issue of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
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Deseret News
The day before his junior year at the University of Michigan, George Orley loaded his car and kissed his mom goodbye before starting the 45-minute drive to school. Days later, police told his parents that George — popular, funny and blessed with loving family and boundless charm — had taken his own life just outside Ann Arbor and the university.
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Self
When famous people talk about their postpartum depression, the world pays attention. Serena Williams, who gave birth to her daughter Alexis Olympia in September 2017, has used her voice yet again to raise awareness of the serious mental health condition that, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, affects one in nine women after they give birth.
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CNBC
Mental health is a major concern on college campuses around the world. According to new research published by the American Psychological Association, over one-third of first-year college students are impacted. Researchers surveyed nearly 14,000 first-year college students from eight countries and found that 35 percent struggled with a mental illness.
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