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ADAA
 April 5-8, 2018
Treatment-Resistant Anxiety and Depression: Challenges and Opportunities
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Just posted: ADAA 2018 Schedule at a Glance
Register today to take advantage of early bird rates!
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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 abstracts, 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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ADAA member experts host free webinars and write blog posts for the public. The webinars and blog posts address some of the most frequently asked questions about psychological and pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, depression and related disorders for adults as well as children. We invite you to share these webinars and blog posts with your clients and colleagues.
Just Posted: Understanding and Treating "Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors"
Presented by: Dr. Suzanne Mouton-Odom, PhD, Director, Psychology Houston PC, President, PsycTech. Ltd.
Member Blogs
Public Blog Post
Using Exposure and Response Prevention in the Treatment of Fear and Failure
Presented by: Patricia Thornton, PhD
ADAA Professional Webinars — Earn CE Credits
Register today for September webinars
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
Eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
OCD & Strategic Pressure: Working with Treatment Resistant Children & Adult Children Living @Home
Sept. 22 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring:Jonathan Grayson, PhD
Eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
ADAA has scheduled webinars through March of 2018. Webinar topics include an OCD series, career development and a focus on depression.
Marketing Your Practice Online: Social Media and Beyond
Oct. 4 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Helene Sobin, MBA and Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP
This webinar is not eligible for CEs
Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry on Management of Treatment- Resistant Depression
Oct. 18 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD
Eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
PTSD: From Cells to Communities
Nov. 2 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Dr. Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD
Eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
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 is eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
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
Eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
Prescribing Exercise for Mood and Anxiety-Related Disorders
Jan. 25, 2018 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET
Featuring: Featuring: Dr. Jasper A. Smits and Ms. Scarlett Baird, M.A.
Eligible for 1 CE/CE hour
Learn more and register today!
Save the Date — Additional Fall/Winter 2017 Webinars
Below is a list of upcoming fall/winter 2017 professional education webinars. For those without dates/times, please check back. We will publish dates/times and registration information here as soon as they are finalized. If you would like to be added to the ADAA professional mailing list, please click here.
- 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
Upcoming 2018 Webinars
- February 8 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET: Eating Disorders & Co-Occurring Conditions and their Mental Health Impact. Lauren Smolar, MSC
- February 22 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET: Using Behavioral Activation Treatment to Treat Perinatal Mood Disorders. Dr. Jacqueline Gollan, PhD
- March 8 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET: How to use Behavioral Sleep Medicine Strategies to Help your Clients with Depression and Anxiety. Dr. Colleen Carney, PhD
- March 15 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET: The Psychosocial Treatment of Bipolar Disorder. Dr. Lauren Weinstock, PhD
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.
Early View Articles — Upcoming September 2017 Issue
Amygdala and regional volumes in treatment-resistant versus nontreatment-resistant depression patients
Anca-Larisa Sandu, Eric Artiges, André Galinowski, Thierry Gallarda, Frank Bellivier, Hervé Lemaitre, Bernard Granger, Damien Ringuenet, Eleni T. Tzavara, Jean-Luc Martinot and Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot
Version of Record online: 9 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22675
COMT val158met polymorphism links to altered fear conditioning and extinction are modulated by PTSD and childhood trauma
Jessica Deslauriers, Dean T. Acheson, Adam X. Maihofer, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Dewleen G. Baker, Mark A. Geyer, Victoria B. Risbrough and Marine Resiliency Study Team
Version of Record online: 18 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22678
Nonremission and time to remission among remitters in major depressive disorder: Revisiting STAR*D
Ramin Mojtabai
Version of Record online: 18 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22677
Early childhood trajectories of separation anxiety: Bearing on mental health, academic achievement, and physical health from mid-childhood to preadolescence
Marco Battaglia, Gabrielle Garon-Carrier, Sylvana M. Côté, Ginette Dionne, Evelyne Touchette, Frank Vitaro, Richard E. Tremblay and Michel Boivin
Version of Record online: 18 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22674
Learn more about the Journal
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Chronic care management services are a critical component of primary care. Read and download tools and information, developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to help you deliver the coordinated care your patients need and deserve, even between appointments. For more, visit go.cms.gov/CCM
The Center for Complicated Grief announces its upcoming clinical workshops at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City. More information and ticketing for the workshops can be found at centerforcomplicatedgrief.eventbrite.com
Level 1: Help People Live with Loss
Friday, September 15 - $250.00
6.5 CEs for licensed social workers in most states and licensed mental health counselors in NY
This one-day workshop is designed to provide a conceptual framework for understanding grief and adaptation to loss generally and in relation to complicated grief (CG). The workshop focuses on strategies and procedures for recognizing and assessing the symptoms of CG and differentiating CG from other common mental health problems such as major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. The workshop also provides an overview of Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT) and introduces participants to some simple, practical procedures that can be used in practice.
Level 2: Treat Complicated Grief
Friday, October 20 - Saturday, October 21 - $600.00
13.0 CEs for licensed social workers in most states and licensed mental health counselors in NY
This two-day workshop covers the principles and practice of CGT. Participants will learn how to use a grief monitoring diary and how to work with personalized aspirational goals in order to revitalize and strengthen self-regulation in bereaved clients. Participants will also learn how to enhance reconnection with significant others, how to listen to the story of the death, how to guide clients in situational revisiting and how to foster continuing bonds to the deceased through memories and imaginal conversation. Please note that the Level 1 workshop is a prerequisite for Level 2.
Suicide Bereavement Clinician Training
Friday, November 10 - $250.00
6.5 CEs for licensed social workers in most states and licensed mental health counselors in NY
The suicide of a loved one can have a profound and devastating impact on those left behind. This workshop is designed specifically for mental health professionals who provide grief therapy for suicide loss survivors. The workshop will provide a focused overview of the impact of suicide on survivors, and the clinical and support responses that are needed after a suicide occurs. Case examples from presenter John "Jack" Jordan's practice and video clips from grief therapy sessions will be used to enhance learning.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States, carrying with it the heaviest burden of disability among mental and behavioral disorders. Depression affects twice as many women as men, regardless of racial and ethnic background or income. Given these figures, what is the difference between males and females when it comes to depression? A recent study explains that men and women appear to suffer from depression differently.
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Psych Central
A new U.K. study finds that children and young people under-25 who become victims of cyberbullying are more than twice as likely to enact self-harm and attempt suicide than non-victims. The collaborative research included the review of more than 150,000 children and young people across 30 countries, over a 21-year period. The findings were published in the journal PLOS One.
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HealthDay News
Smoking during pregnancy is on the rise among American women with depression, according to a new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Researchers analyzed data from more than 8,500 mothers-to-be who took part in an annual government health survey. It found a 2.5 percent rise in smoking rates among pregnant women with depression between 2002 and 2014.
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Psychiatry Advisor
About one-third of patients receiving long-term treatment of valproate or lithium for bipolar disorder had good treatment responses, according to data published in the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders. Additionally, mixed and psychotic features and comorbid anxiety disorder were associated with poor treatment response.
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HealthDay News
The number of Americans who say they've taken an antidepressant over the past month rose by 65 percent between 1999 and 2014, a new government survey finds. By 2014, about one in every eight Americans over the age of 12 reported recent antidepressant use, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Psychiatry Advisor
A group version of enhanced cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT-E) is effective at reducing eating disorder psychopathology, according to a study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Researchers randomized 40 individuals with eating disorders and a body mass index (BMI) of ≥18 kg/m² to an immediate-start or delayed-start to compare therapeutic effects of group CBT-E with a waitlist control.
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Psych Central
Researchers have discovered that anxious children tend to avoid making eye contact, and this has consequences for how they experience fear. The shorter and less frequently they look at the eyes of others, the more likely they are to be afraid of them, even when there may be no reason to be, according to the study published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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Psych Central
Monitoring a depressed patient's daily activity patterns before trying the drug ketamine — being tested as a fast-acting antidepressant — may help physicians determine whether the drug will be effective or not, according to a new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
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The New York Times
Rates of teen suicide continue to rise, federal health officials reported this month, with rates for girls higher than at any point in the last 40 years. A rational response would be to engage in evidence-based measures to try to reverse this course. Too often, we assume that there's nothing we can do. Sometimes, we even make things worse.
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Science Daily
Depressed people have a peculiar view of the past -- rather than glorifying the "good old days," they project their generally bleak outlook on to past events, according to new research. It is known depression makes sufferers see the present and the future as sad, but this is the first time research has shown it also casts a long shadow over people's memories of the past.
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CBS News
When a 16-year-old girl walked into a hair salon with matted and tangled hair last week, hairdressers weren't sure they'd be able to help. The teenager spent eight hours sitting inside a classroom at Capri College in Waterloo, Iowa, as a cosmetology student attempted to comb through it. But there was more work to be done, so the teen was told to come back.
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