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Win an Apple Watch, a Free Hotel Night or a Gift Card! ADAA 2018 Member Survey
We are turning to you, as a valued ADAA member, to help us better understand what ADAA membership means to you and how we can improve your experience. ADAA is committed to ensuring that we are meeting your needs and invite you to take our short anonymous survey (it should take less than five minutes to complete) to help us in our ongoing improvement efforts. Your input is critical to help us meet your expectations. Click here to take the survey. Complete the survey by Nov. 15. Submit your contact information to enter a drawing for a great special appreciation prize from ADAA!
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ADAA offers a variety of webinars for mental health professionals. Most ADAA professional webinars offer CE credits.
Upcoming Fall Webinars

This Thursday, 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 Hour

Thursday, November 27, 2018 — Hannah Bergman, PhD and Vasiliki Michopoulous, PhD present: First Impressions: How to Develop a Professional CV for Each Stage of Your Career
This webinar is not eligible for CE credit.

Thursday, November 29, 2018 — David Yusko, PsyD presents: An Introduction to Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Eligible for 1 CE Hour

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 Hour
Recent ADAA Webinar Recordings
Identifying and Treating Moral Injury-Based Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Military Service Members and Veterans
Presented by Brian Klassen, PhD
This webinar is eligible for 1 CE hour
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
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#ADAA2019 Member Discount
 If you are an ADAA member professional, you are eligible for an extra discount for #ADAA2019 — but only if you're an early bird! Register today and use the code Chicago2019 to take an extra $50 off your registration.
#ADAA2019 Submissions Update
 Thank you to all #ADAA2019 session submitters. We received over 200 submissions this year covering a very diverse array of topics. Please note that #ADAA2019 decision notifications will be sent to all submitters by November 8, 2018. Should your submission not be accepted as a session, we encourage you to submit a poster if it qualifies within the guidelines.
Please also note that the New Research Poster deadline has been extended to Thursday, November 15, 2018. Notifications will be sent out by mid January, 2019.
Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) decision letters and the Donald F. Klein Awardee will be announced the first week of December.
Questions? Please contact Gabby at goved@adaa.org.
Thank you to ADAA's Current #ADAA2019 Sponsors
Diamond Sponsor
Rogers Behavioral Health
Gold Sponsor
Sage Therapeutics
Silver Sponsors
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Houston OCD Program
Bronze Sponsors
Anxiety.org
Beck Institute
McLean Hospital
Thank You to ADAA's Current #ADAA2019 Exhibitors
Alpine Academy
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
The Anxiety Treatment Center of Greater Chicago
Beck Institute
Freespira
Houston OCD Program
IOCDF
McLean Hospital
Mountain Valley Treatment Center
The OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center
Renewed Freedom Center
Rogers Behavioral Health
Skyland Trail
Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center
For details on sponsorship or exhibiting opportunities, please contact Gabby Oved at goved@adaa.org or 240-485-1031.
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 New Member Profile Feature!
Do you want to connect with other ADAA members via your social media network? Do you want ADAA to share your accomplishments with our followers? We’re excited to announce that we have added four new custom fields to your ADAA member profile. If you are on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram, let us know. Log in to your member account and under Edit Bio, scroll down to "Additional Information" to see how you can add your information. If you're listed on Find-a-Therapist, you may include these to your online profile by placing the security setting to "everyone." Otherwise, this information will be available only to signed in ADAA members.

CAAPS Consensus Statement
The Coalition for Advancement and Application of Psychological Science (CAAPS) released a consensus statement on evidence-based practice decision-making for mental and behavioral health care. Read the statement here.
New ADAA Member Blog Posts

Is Your Child Scared by Halloween? A Cognitive Behavioral Therapist Offers Help
by Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C

Help! I Keep Trying to Move Up the Corporate Ladder and My Social Anxiety is Holding me Back!
by Holly Scott, MBA, MS, LPC

Overcoming Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
by Melissa Hunt, PhD
Dr. Hunt also recorded a public webinar on this topic.
Overcoming Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): Reclaim Your Life from Anxiety and Distress about IBS Symptoms
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.
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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).
11/01/2018 Helping a Child With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Harvard Health Publishing, Jacqueline Sperling, PhD
10/31/2018 Am I Depressed or Just Sad? How to Know When to Seek Treatment, NBC News, Rachel Dubrow, LCSW
10/30/2018 Does Social Media Cause Depression?, Child Mind Institute, Alexandra Hamlet, PsyD
10/30/2018 What To Do When Your Kid Is Scared Of Halloween, Moms, Bonnie Zucker, PsyD
10/24/2018 Why This OCD Memoir Is a Must-Read, The Mighty, Shala Nicely, LPC
10/23/2018 Separation Anxiety: Apparently It's Not Just For Toddlers, The Washington Post, Amy Przeworski, PhD
10/23/2018 Ketamine Finds Use in Depression Treatment, Chadi Abdallah, MD and Teddy J. Akiki MD
10/18/2018 TIA&TW — Stress in America (Part 2), PBS, Jonathan Dalton, PhD
10/18/2018 How Much Anxiety is Normal?, GQ Magazine, David Rosmarin, PhD
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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
November 2018 Issue — Volume 35, Issue 11
Focus On: Veterans, Trauma, and PostTraumatic Stress
Highlighted Articles
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
The Relationship Between Moral Injury Appraisals, Trauma Exposure, and Mental Health in Refugees
Joel Hoffman, Belinda Liddell, Richard A. Bryant, Angela Nickerson
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Cigarette Smoking: A Systematic Review
Nathan T. Kearns, Emily Carl, Aliza T. Stein, Anka A. Vujanovic, Michael J. Zvolensky, Jasper A. J. Smits, Mark B. Powers
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ResearchMatch invites you to a webcast featuring Dr. Charles Taylor, PhD, University of California, San Diego and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Dr. Taylor will share the results of a recent study on Using Positive Activities to Combat Anxiety and Depression.
Register for this webcast at 11 a.m. CST (noon EST) on Nov. 14, and add this event to your calendars. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Psych Central
A new study has found that survivors of head and neck cancer are two times more likely to commit suicide than survivors of other cancers and four times more likely than the general population. The study, published in the journal Cancer, looked at patients over the age of 20 who had a first primary malignancy of the head or neck. That included squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, nasal cavity and sinuses.
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NBC News
Nicole Spector writes: When I was diagnosed with major depression at 22, I was too deep within the fog of the illness too much care that finally, after years of struggling, I had an answer as to why I felt so impenetrably bad, and that with treatment, I could improve. Later, once I began therapy and started taking antidepressants, I began to feel better, which resulted both in relief and a strange sort of guilt.
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Reuters
A range of common mental health conditions are being diagnosed more often in U.S. university students, according to a study that also finds students are more willing to seek help than in the past. Based on surveys of more than 450,00 students, researchers found that from 2009 to 2015, the proportion who report having a diagnosis or being treated has gone up for anxiety, ADHD, depression, insomnia, OCD and panic attacks.
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Psych Central
Japanese researchers have identified three types of depression, one of which is untreatable with the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the most commonly prescribed medication for the condition. The three distinct subtypes of depression were characterized by two main factors: functional connectivity patterns synchronized between different regions of the brain and childhood trauma experience.
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HealthDay News via Clinical Advisor
Giving patients with post-traumatic stress disorder their preferred treatment improves adherence and symptoms, according to a study published online Oct. 19 in The American Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers randomly assigned 200 patients with PTSD to choice of treatment or no choice. Those assigned to no choice were then randomly assigned to prolonged exposure or sertraline.
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UPI
People with obsessive compulsive disorder could manage their symptoms, including excessive handwashing and contamination fears, by using a "brain training" app, according to its developers. Researchers from the University of Cambridge, who tested the smartphone app on people without the disorder but had strong contamination fears, found one week of training can lead to significant improvements of OCD symptoms.
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Medical Xpress
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that patients with major depressive disorder exhibited a significant reduction of depressive symptoms after being treated with ezogabine, an FDA approved drug used to treat seizures. The review was published Nov. 1 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
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Medical Xpress
Veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder were less anxious and depressed and had an improved quality of life after an eight-week therapeutic horseback riding program, according to a new study. The data revealed clinically significant improvements in depression and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the veterans who participated in the therapeutic riding program compared to those who did not participate.
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Psychiatry Advisor
In the primary care setting, depression is the most common symptom associated with increased disability in the domains of work, social life and family life, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research. Researchers analyzed the association of depression, anxiety and somatization on functional disability in the domains of work, social life, and family life in patients seeking mental healthcare at primary care facilities.
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Psychiatry Advisor
Poor dietary behaviors and physical activity may contribute to the development of metabolic syndrome in patients with depression. According to a study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, these lifestyle factors were found to mediate 23 percent of the association between depressive symptoms and risk of metabolic syndrome.
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CNN
Many members of Generation have taken more active roles in political activism this year, and a new survey indicates that the state of the nation is to blame for this generation's stress levels.
As gun violence, sexual assault claims and immigration dominate the 2018 news cycle, the American Psychological Association's annual Stress in America survey says that such issues are the main cause of stress among young adults.
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Lifehacker
Rebecca Fishbein writes: A few weeks ago, I began to have trouble getting out of bed in the morning. My body and brain felt sluggish and slow, and I started swapping out exercise and socializing in favor of Rice Krispie treats and a seemingly endless Buffy the Vampire Slayer binge (thank you Hulu!).
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Today
This fall, fans of "This Is Us" have seen a different side to Toby, Kate Pearson's new husband. The ordinarily happy, go-lucky guy is off of his antidepressant medications — and trying desperately to hold it together for Kate, but he's failing. The show is embracing Toby's struggles, and it's not depicting depression or mental issues as a stereotype.
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