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OCD and bipolar disorder: Novel insights
Psychiatric Times
Obsessive–compulsive disorder is characterized by obsessions or compulsions (or both) that are distressing, time-consuming, and oftentimes impairing. OCD has a lifetime prevalence of one to three percent and thus ranks as one of the most common mental health illnesses. By contrast, the prevalence of current and lifetime comorbid OCD in bipolar disorder is estimated at 10.9 percent and 11.2 percent respectively. Conversely, bipolar disorder has been reported in approximately 10 to 20 percent of patients with OCD. This comorbidity is not only fairly common but also associated with greater psychosocial dysfunction and higher suicide attempts when compared with individuals with bipolar disorder without OCD and associated with more severe OCD symptoms than individuals with OCD without bipolar disorder.
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#ADAA2021Virtual News
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Registration Now Open!
#ADAA2021Virtual will utilize a new 3-D virtual platform and is like no other conference in scope and depth. You will have unsurpassed access to experts in clinical care and research, have opportunities to network with colleagues from around the globe, and take away learning experiences that will enrich your research and practice. We look forwarding to seeing you in this new virtual realm.
ADAA's 2021 3D Virtual annual conference offers an ALL-INCLUSIVE* fee for the entire 2-day virtual event. There are no add on or a la carte fees. Full access includes:
- Admission to all live sessions, live Q&As, posters, and exhibits over the conference dates of March 18-19, 2020
- Extended access to more than 100 recorded presentations for 60 days post conference dates
- Keynote Address and other special sessions (Ross Lecture, Scientific Research Symposium, Clinical Practice Symposium)
- The opportunity to earn CE/CME credits for most live and on demand sessions - ADAA estimates more than 50 CE/CME eligible sessions.
- And, for the first time, ADAA expects to offer Cross Cultural Competency Diversity Credits
- Access to small networking and discussions groups
- Partners Solution Hall: Meet exhibitors and sponsors. Learn about ADAA committees and special interest groups
Please note - if you deferred your 2020 conference registration to 2021, ADAA will be in touch with additional information regarding those deferrals soon.
*Nonmembers requesting CE/CME credits must pay an additional fee of $89.
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Interested in securing your exhibit spot or sponsor benefits? Please email ADAA at conference@adaa.org. More information will be posted soon on the #ADAA2021Virtual Exhibitor and Sponsor website pages.
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ADAA Professional Education
ADAA
ADAA offers a variety of live and recorded webinars for mental health professionals. Many ADAA professional webinars offer CE/CME and AWSB credits – right now there are 15 on-demand webinars eligible for CE/CME credit, with more added each month! Sign up today to make sure you don’t miss out on these educational opportunities.
Live This Thursday! The Practice of Cultural Humility: Addressing Privilege, Stereotypes, Biases, and Microaggressions in the Therapeutic Context
Featuring Hong Nguyen, PhD and Elizabeth Sauber, PhD
Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 12:00 pm ET
CE/CME Eligible
Read more…
Live! Written Exposure Therapy: A Brief Treatment Approach for PTSD
Featuring Denise Sloan, PhD
Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 12:00 pm ET
CE/CME Eligible
Read more…
Live! Introduction to Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Disorders of Overcontrol
Featuring R. Trent Codd, EdS
Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 12:00 pm EST
CE/CME Eligible
Read more…
ADAA RECENT ON DEMAND RECORDINGS WITH CE/CME CREDITS
- Worry and Anxiety in Youth: ADAA 2020 Fall Forum
Sandra Pimentel, PhD, Mona Potter, MD, Eli Lebowitz, PhD, Krystal Lewis, PhD, Lynn Lyons, LICSW, Jamie Micco, PhD, ABPP, John Walkup, MD, and Barbara Kamholz, PhD, ABPP
- Addressing Racism to Reduce Mental Health Inequities
Briana Woods-Jaeger, PhD
- Introduction to Affirmative Clinical Practice with Sexual Minority Clients
David Pantalone, PhD
- Socratic Dialogue and Collaborative Empiricism: Practical Strategies to Overcome Common Pitfalls
Scott Waltman, PsyD, ABPP
View all CE/CME eligible on demand webinars.
ADAA RECENT ON DEMAND RECORDINGS WITHOUT CE/CME CREDITS
View a full list of all ADAA on demand webinars.
Interested in submitting a professional education webinar proposal? Click here to access the webinar submissions portal.
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ADAA recognizes, supports, and values the inclusion of diverse groups and views in all parts of the association. ADAA recognizes the strength and improved decisions that results from participation in association programs, leadership, committees/taskforces, and staff of diverse individuals from a wide-range of organizations. As such, ADAA embraces diversity and inclusiveness as a core value. Read more...
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Visit ADAA’s resource page - updated daily - to provide helpful tips and strategies for coping with heightened anxiety and depression related to the COVID-19 outbreak from our ADAA members. Please share this resource with your colleagues and with your clients.
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Members' Corner
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Eda Gorbis, PhD, LMFT
Back in 1994, I applied for a poster presentation for the ADAA annual conference based on my observations that there is a certain group of patients whose onset of OCD began after a certain level of trauma/PTSD. ADAA's committee accepted my presentation for a symposium which was supervised and led by one of the leading experts in the world on OCD and PTSD: Dr. Edna Foa (also an ADAA member).
Once the poster was accepted, an unbelievable buzz went through the OCD and anxiety disorder community at UCLA. This incredible association not only accepted my paper but also found it to be important enough to be presented at the conference. While thrilled, my anxiety went through the roof. I barely spoke English, and whenever I did my Russian accent was so profoundly evident that English words sounded foreign. I would even carry a Webster Dictionary with me wherever I went. As such, I would practice the talk tirelessly – every time of the day, every place I could find, I would be practicing, including random UCLA bathrooms! I would practice in front of everyone, from UCLA faculty to colleagues to family members. Read more…
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ADAA Members in the Media — Recent Articles
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).
11/13/2020 Living through a pandemic might have this surprising effect on your health, Luana Marques, PhD
11/12/2020 Thank You, Anxiety, PsychologyToday, Joel Minden, PhD
11/12/2020 How to Deal with Quarantine-Induced Social Anxiety, New York Times, Ellen Hendriksen PhD
11/10/2020 Need to Navigate Tricky Conversations at the Holiday Dinner Table?, Courier Journal, Kevin L. Chapman, PhD
11/09/2020 Kojo for Kids: Dealing with Tough Emotions, Kojo Nnamdi Show, Mary Alvord, PhD
11/09/2020 It's Time for a Mental Health Check-In, Kojo Nnamdi Show, Mary Alvord, PhD
11/09/2020 Helping Children with Anxiety in the Pandemic, New York Times, Rachel Busman, PhD
11/07/2020 Depression Rises in Arizona as Pandemic Continues, YourValley.net, Mary Alvord, PhD
11/04/2020 How Mental Health Professionals are Spending Election Week, MarketWatch, Mary Alvord, PhD
11/03/2020 How to Talk About Your Mental Health at Work When Everything is Stressing You Out, CNBC, Richa Bhatia, MD
11/03/2020 It's Not Just Adults Who Are Stressed, Kids Are Too, New York Times, My Alvord, PhD
11/03/2020 Voted Already? Here are 50 Ways to Survive Election Day, CNN, Mary Alvord, PhD
11/02/2020 How to Worry More Mindfully, New York Times, Lizabeth Roemer, PhD
11/02/2020 Is Covid-19 Giving You Agoraphobia?, TheHealthy.com, Jenny Yip, PsyD, ABPP
10/30/2020 Americans Experiencing a National Mental Health Crisis, Theravive.com, Shane Owens, PhD, ABPP
10/29/2020 Gen Z Stressed About an Uncertain Future, but Not All Will Vote, Theravive.com, Shane Owens, PhD, ABPP
Have you published a research or article or book for the public or professional communities? ADAA member publications on ADAA website. Please email us.
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New Member ADAA Blog Posts and Webinars
ADAA
COVID Stress Syndrome: 5 Ways the Pandemic is Affecting Mental Health (public blog post)
by Gordon J. G. Asmundson, PhD
Q&A: What Are Intrusive Thoughts and How Can You Deal with Them? (public blog post)
Featuring: Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA and Paul Greene, PhD
Planning for Success in the Pandemic Version of the Holidays (public blog post)
Karen Cassiday, PhD, ACT
Keep Calm and Carry On – But How? A Psychologist Offers 10 Tips to Manage the Uncertainty and Stress of Election Aftermath (public blog post)
by Bethany Teachman, PhD
3 Ways to Help Kids Manage Emotions During Covid (public blog post)
by Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW
Top Ten COVID-19 Anxiety Reduction Strategies (public blog post)
by Ken Goodman, LCSW
ADAA - My Professional Cradle (professional blog post)
by Eda Gorbis, PhD, LMFT
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ADAA News
ADAA
Upcoming Live Public Webinar – Health Anxiety Part 2
 Health Anxiety Part 2: Learn How to Face Your Fear of Death and Overcome Health Anxiety
Live - December 7, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET
Featuring ADAA Board member Ken Goodman, LCSW
The illness you fear may not be the illness you have. Do you worry about cancer, heart attacks, or a brain aneurism? Do you regularly google your symptoms or reexam parts of your body that are concerning? If so, you might have Health Anxiety. ADAA board member, Ken Goodman, LCSW, presents the second of two webinars on this debilitating disorder. In Part One, Ken explained health anxiety and provided tools and a strategy for overcoming it. In Part Two, Ken dives further into the treatment and teaches how to incorporate exposure therapy into recovery. This LIVE webinar will also include a former patient who suffered with fears of ALS and MS. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask Ken questions about your specific fears and query his former patient about her journey to freedom.
Note: this is webinar is intended for a public audience. While ADAA members are welcome to attend, this webinar is not CE/CME eligible. We encourage you to share this event with your clients.
Gearing up for #GivingTuesday
 With the season of giving around the corner, it's the perfect time to reflect on all that we are thankful for and to give back to organizations in your community – like ADAA – whose mission and work you value.
As we have all relied upon one another during this year’s challenges, ADAA ensured that reaching out to and engaging with our professional and public communities was our top priority. This December 1st is #GivingTuesday, by donating to ADAA and helping us raise awareness to #breakthestigma, we can change lives.
Here’s how you can support ADAA this season of Giving:
ADAA’s Online Mental Health Community Hits New Milestone
 ADAA hosts two communities on the Health Unlocked platform - an English-speaking community and a Spanish-speaking community.
Recently, ADAA’s English-speaking community became the 6th largest community on the Health Unlocked community with over 50,000 members. Additionally, our Spanish-speaking community is rapidly closing in on a milestone of its own with 964 current members.
ADAA shares public resources, blog posts, and webinars with our Health Unlocked communities. We cannot thank you, our members, enough for making these resources available. You are making a difference for our community participants.
Please share our English-speaking and Spanish-speaking communities with your clients. Or, if you are fluent in Spanish and would like to offer assistance with ADAA’s Spanish-speaking community, please email us at membership@adaa.org.
ADAA Publishes Revised Public Depression Resources
 ADAA is excited to share our newest depression-focused public webpages as well as updated information for all existing pages. These pages were developed and updated by ADAA public education committee members Richa Bhatia, MD, Kathariya Mokrue, PhD, and Paul Greene, PhD. Thank you for your commitment to ADAA.
https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/depression-facts-statistics
https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/depression/faqs
https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/depression/tips
 Are You Connected to ADAA?
Did you know ADAA maintains robust social media feeds? Follow us to stay up-to-date on all things ADAA and to see what your colleagues are doing to stay engaged with ADAA’s public community.
Check us out and follow us on:
@ADAAconference (professional Twitter)
@GotAnxiety (public Twitter)
Facebook – Professional
Facebook – Public
@triumphoveranxiety (Instagram)
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ADAA Celebrates 40 Years
 
ADAA is proud to be celebrating 40 years of providing a professional home for our multidisciplinary membership and working collaboratively to help the millions of people who struggle every day with anxiety disorders and/or depression find help and hope. We stand strong and committed to continuing to provide free cutting-edge evidence-based treatment and research information to the global public community.
We invite you to read long-time ADAA member Dr. Eda Gorbis’s reflections about her time with ADAA.
You Can Support ADAA While You Shop!
Did you know that when you shop on Amazon you can also support ADAA year-round by selecting us as your charity of choice? AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support ADAA every time you shop — at no cost to you. Select ADAA on AmazonSmile and support our work to #breakthestigma around mental health issues with every item you purchase. Don’t wait – Epic Black Friday deals are starting now!
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Depression and Anxiety Journal News
ADAA
Volume 37, Issue 11
FOCUS ON: FAMILY, HOMELESSNESS, AND DIETARY RELATIONSHIPS TO MENTAL HEALTH
NOVEMBER 2020
Murray B. Stein, MD, MPH - Editor-in-Chief
Highlighted Articles
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. A priority is placed on papers focusing on treatment, as well as those providing cutting-edge reviews of key areas and issues, in order to enhance the clinical evaluation and care of individuals struggling with the effects of these disorders. All submissions are peer-reviewed; there is no handling or publishing fee.
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 #19 of 20.
Murray B. Stein, MD, MPH - Editor-in-Chief
Meet the Journal Editorial Board
Interested in submitting an article? View the Depression and Anxiety Submissions Guidelines.
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Mental Health Community News
ADAA
 Scholarship/Award Opportunities
The American Psychological Foundation has several award and scholarship opportunities – with deadlines approaching in mid-June and this fall. Specifically:
Div. 12/ Theodore Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical
Psychology: $2,000
Due November 19, 2020
$2,000 to honor a clinical psychologist for professional accomplishments in clinical psychology.
Nominees should be no more than 10 years post doctoral degree.
More information: https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/blau
Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award: $4,000
Due December 1, 2020
$4,000 to recognize a significant career of contributions of a psychologist who is an exceptional teacher of psychology.
More information: https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/brewer
APF/ Division 29 Early Career Award: $1,250
Due January 31, 2021
$1,250 to recognize promising contributions to psychotherapy, psychology, and Div. 29 (Society
for the Advancement of Psychotherapy) by a division member with 10 or fewer years of
postdoctoral experience.
https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/div-29
Apply online for all programs here
Questions? Email APF’s program coordinator, Julia, at jwatson@apa.org
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Ways You Can Support ADAA's Mission
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Donate now through PayPal
Supporters can now support ADAA’s mission by donating directly through PayPal. Click here to donate today.
We Love Our Facebook Fundraisers
You and your Facebook friends can support causes that are important to you (like ADAA) by raising funds.
Read more and start your own ADAA fundraiser today.
 Check out ADAA's Fall Sale!
Enjoy some online shopping while supporting a good cause - ADAA's mission of providing complimentary, evidence-based resources to the public. Most store items are now 50% off now and all items are $15 or under! Click here to stock your cart.
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.RESEARCH AND PRACTICE NEWS
Post-election anxiety: 7 ways to care for your mental health
Healthline
Post-election anxiety can be particularly difficult for people when the candidate they supported doesn’t win. In fact, they may face even more strain on their mental health if they live in a state that supported their candidate.
Additionally, the more the candidate loses by, the greater the number of days of stress and depression for residents in those states. According to a study led by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Duke University, researchers analyzed data from nearly 500,000 adults, looking at mental health indicators during the 2016 general election.
They found that people who lived in states with a Hillary Clinton majority experienced on average an additional half-day of poor mental health in the month following election (December) compared with the month before (October).
Brandon Yan, UCSF medical student and health policy researcher, says the findings indicate that elections could impact public mental health, and election-related stress should be monitored.
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People with COVID-19 more likely to develop depression, anxiety, and dementia
Healthline
Nearly 20 percent of COVID-19 patients developed a mental health issue — like depression, anxiety, or dementia — within three months of diagnosis, according to a new study.
Researchers evaluated the health records of 69 million people in the United States, which included over 62,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19.
Doctors have long suspected that COVID-19 was linked to higher rates of mental health problems.
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Anxiety, depression decreased in Wuhan after COVID-19 lockdown eased
Healio
Rates of anxiety and depression decreased among the general public and health workers of Wuhan, China, after the COVID-19 lockdown was eased, according to study results published in PLOS One.
“Disasters resulting in widespread injury, life lose, income decrease and health problems usually have [a long-term] impact on psychological states,” Peixin Lu, of the School of Information Management at Wuhan University, and colleagues wrote. “Literature suggests that the unfamiliarity and uncontrollability of associated risks is related to higher susceptibility of PTSD. Previous studies have reported the SARS-related PTSD symptoms in [health care workers] and survivors in Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.”
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Are women more frequently diagnosed with anxiety and depression?
Psychiatric Times
A recent study by the University of the Basque Country confirmed that gender is a significant determining factor in mental health and its management.
The university’s research group OPIK, Social Determinants of Health and Demographic Change, a multidisciplinary group comprising research personnel in the field of social and health sciences, discovered that not only are women more likely to receive diagnoses, they are also more likely to be prescribed medications.
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FDA approves prescription-only Apple Watch app for PTSD nightmares
New Atlas
The majority of post-traumatic stress disorder patients suffer from frequent traumatic nightmares that can deeply disrupt sleep patterns and have been linked with significantly higher rates of suicide. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now approved a platform called NightWare, designed to help improve sleep in PTSD patients suffering from such recurrent nightmares. The system is an app that runs on Apple Watches and will only be available by prescription.
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VA tracks suicides among its patients during pandemic, finds no increase
Stars and Stripes
The Department of Veterans Affairs hasn’t found evidence that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is leading to an increase in suicides among its patients, according to a report the agency released Nov. 12.
Since the pandemic struck the United States in March, there hasn’t been an increase in suicides or suicide attempts among its patients or visits to VA emergency rooms that were related to suicide attempts, the department said. The VA could not say whether suicides had increased among veterans who were not enrolled in VA care.
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Birth control pill won't raise depression risk
HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
Women who struggle with mental health problems will sometimes forgo the most effective forms of birth control because of concerns about worsening those issues, but a new study delivers a reassuring finding: the pill and other forms of hormonal birth control do not raise depression risk.
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Could Propecia up young men's suicide risk?
HealthDay News via WebMD
Young men who consider using the drug Propecia to prevent baldness may be putting themselves at risk for depression and suicide, a new study suggests.
Information from the World Health Organization indicates that over the past 10 years, reports of suicidal ideation among young men using the drug have increased, rising significantly after 2012, the researchers said.
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Low fitness linked to higher depression and anxiety risk
University College London via Medical Xpress
People with low aerobic and muscular fitness are nearly twice as likely to experience depression, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Low fitness levels also predicted a 60 percent greater chance of anxiety, over a seven-year follow-up, according to the findings published in BMC Medicine.
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