Student Poster Exhibition, Awards Ceremony, & Presentation
Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 5:00-8:00PM
Student Poster Exhibition & Awards Ceremony: 5:00-6:00PM
::Student Poster Winners::
Kathleen McGrath (Drexel University), Evan Forman, James Herbert.
"Psychometric Properties of the Drexel University ACT/CT Adherence and Competence Rating Scale"
Eileen Lightner (PCOM), G. Chris Christensen, Bruce Zahn.
"The Effect of Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults with Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease: A Feasibility Study"
Bambi Juryea (La Salle University), Randy Fingerhut, LeeAnn Cardaciotto, Brian Hess.
"An Empirical Test of a Cognitive Vulnerability Model Specific to Postpartum Depression"
Erica Yuen (Drexel University), James Herbert, Evan Forman, Ronald Comer, Jean-Claude Bradley, Elizabeth Goetter, & Jennie Park.
"Second Life Virtual Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder"
Presentation: 6:00-8:00PM
"Some common
principles of change in treating depression and anxiety disorders?
The roles of avoidance, affective arousal, and cognitive/emotional
processing"
Adele M. Hayes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training, University of Delaware
Description of the Program:
Given the high rates of comorbidity between depression and anxiety disorders, there have been increasing efforts to identify common targets of intervention to improve treatment outcomes. Avoidance will be discussed as an inhibitor of change in both disorders and affective arousal and cognitive/emotional processing as facilitators of change. A treatment that applies principles from exposure-based therapies for anxiety disorders to depression will be described. Strategies for targeting avoidance in depression and for moving patients to healthy processing of affectively-charged material will be discussed. Data examining avoidance, affective arousal, and processing as predictors of treatment outcome in an initial clinical trial will be presented.
At the completion of this talk, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the problem of comorbidity
between depression and anxiety disorders
2. Identify some principles of change that might be
common in the treatment of depression and anxiety
disorders
3. Describe treatment strategies from exposure-based
treatments for anxiety disorders that might apply to the
treatment of depression.
Dr. Adele Hayes is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Director of Clinical Training at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on the process of change in therapies for depression and anxiety disorders, with an emphasis on identifying common principles and mechanisms of change. She regularly publishes her work in prestigious scientific journals and at national and international conferences. She is the Co-Editor of a recent special issue of Clinical Psychology Review on innovations in the study of change in cognitive-behavioral therapies. She has been an Associate Editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology for her expertise in therapy process research.
PHILADELPHIA BEHAVIOR THERAPY ASSOCIATION