Webinars for Mental Health Treatment Providers & Researchers
ADAA offers high quality continuing education webinars for mental health professionals on anxiety, depression, OCD, and co-occurring disorders. ADAA works with AMEDCO to accredit webinars and educational sessions. Not all webinars are eligible for CE/CME credit.
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CBT for Anxiety and OCD – Partnership Training with Anxiety Training
CBT for Anxiety & OCD is on-demand, online course offered in partnership with ADAA & Anxiety Training.
Over the past two decades, the U.S. suicide rate has steadily increased despite expanded efforts to reverse this trend via expanded awareness campaigns, wide implementation of suicide prevention programs and initiatives, and increased mental health advocacy, and antistigma campaigns.
Social Camouflaging in Autistic Adolescents and its Association with Social Processes and Anxiety
The Myth of “Having it All:” Finding your Work-Life Rhythm for Female- and Women-Identified Mental Health Care Professionals
Children with untreated Selective Mutism are at an increased risk for self-esteem issues, depression, school failure, social skill problems, and school refusal.
This symposium presents innovative findings related to the role of caregivers in the prevention and treatment of adolescent suicidality and depression. Depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are impairing in adolescence, both in the present and over the long term.
Superhero Therapy: Combining Evidence-Based Therapy with Pop Culture Narratives to Help Clients Heal
Methylation of the AIM2 gene: A common biomarker for PTSD-related inflammation and neuropathology
#ADAA2022 Donald F.
Migraine and depression have a bidirectional relationship, meaning depression increases the risk of migraine and vice versa. Those with depression are 3.4 times more likely to develop migraine. Conversely, those with migraine are 5.8 times more likely to develop depression.
Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole! A Clinical Approach to Unanswerable Questions and the Quest for Certainty
Contextual Behavioral Approaches to Reducing Minority Stress Among Sexual and Gender Minority Clients
A Global Perspective on Resilience Factors as Moderators of Variability in Mental Health During COVID-19 in Diverse Clinical and Community Populations
Research Feature - Mapping An Anxiety Spectrum: A Neurobiological Marker of Severity and Prognosis In Mood and Anxiety Disorders
#ADAA2021Virtual Donald F. Klein Awardee Research Presentation
Suicide and Suicide Prevention: Ethical and Legal Perspectives
This CE/CME eligible webinar focuses on how clinicians can provide empirically based interventions to manage barriers to reducing family accommodation for families with OCD.
Self-control, the ability to inhibit competing urges, impulses, or behaviors is highly valued by most societies.
This webinar presents Written Exposure Therapy (WET), a 5 session treatment for PTSD. Background research examining the necessary and sufficient components of successful PTSD treatment led to the development of WET which is described in the webinar.
The 2020 ADAA Virtual Fall Forum focuses on anxiety and worry in youth, a transdiagnostic issue affecting children, teens, and emerging adults and addresses the ways in which technology can be harnessed to address these challenges.
Trauma exposure is a serious public health problem that disproportionately affects Black communities.
Socratic questioning is a transtheoretical omnipresent psychotherapeutic process. Effective use of Socratic questioning in session is predictive of symptoms change; this relationship holds even after controlling for the relationship.
Immigrant, refugee, and asylee clients represent a diverse group with unique mental health needs. Over 1 million individuals obtained a green card in the United States in 2018 (Department of Homeland Security, 2020).
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is classified under obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders due to its many shared similarities with OCD, including preoccupations associated with engagement in safety behaviors. Patients with BDD have a perceived or imagined defect in their physical appearance, and
Anxiety across the globe is at an all-time high with a pandemic that has brought fear and uncertainty to all. For individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), there has been a risk for increased symptoms, due to COVID-19 and increased isolation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the landscape of digital therapy, making telehealth a staple in the therapist toolkit.
Medical Marijuana Laws & Evidence for Harmful/Beneficial Effects in Depression and Anxiety Disorders
As of February 2020, “medical marijuana” has been approved in 33 states, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands in the US and Canada. Additionally 14 states and territories have approved recreational adult-use of marijuana.
Within the United States, Black maternal and infant mortality has reached alarming rates. Black mothers and infants are 2.5 times more likely to die than their white counterparts.
This webinar will provide the basic information that mental health providers should know regarding the changes to telemental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, including brief overviews of a variety of federal and New York State policies and guidance.
According to the recent Center for Disease Control (CDC) report, more than half of suicide decedents between 2000 and 2016 were never diagnosed with a mental health condition, and only a quarter disclosed suicide intent prior to ending their lives.
This presentation provides an overview of intensive/residential treatment (I/RT) programs for OCD and related disorders.
The Phased Approach to COVID-19 Mental Health Response (PAC) is a framework for COVID-19 mental health response developed by ADAA members Drs. Sheila Rauch, Naomi Simon, and Barbara Rothbaum to aid in responding to and planning for mental health impacts of the current pandemic.
Individuals suffering with intrusive self-harm OCD frequently misattribute their thoughts for genuine suicidal ideation.
The current COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in reach around the world and the extended nature of this invisible threat. All are impacted whether it is direct impact on health or employment or indirect impact through availability of services and loved ones.
Prior to COVID-19, telehealth was often used as an alternative to in-person care, to maintain continuity of care, or in combination.
The COVID19 pandemic has required mental health practitioners to shift from providing largely in-person therapeutic intervention, to operating a complete Telemental Health psychotherapy practice. This change not only requires knowledge of ethical and legal requirements (i.e.
Tips to help clinicians address the problems of running their clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic and help them improve how they manage the problems of helping patients maintain and build upon progress in treatment that is disrupted by public self-quarantine and lock down in response t
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is emerging as a potential intervention for patients with highly treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Early, open-label studies supported the safety and potential efficacy of DBS for TRD but later randomized, controlled trials have yielded mixed results.
One of the biggest barriers faced by African American female survivors who choose to disclose their abuse is a hostile environment and a tendency towards justification, particularly when the alleged offender happens to be a man of influence.
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent class of mental health condition among older adults, and they are associated with adverse consequences for physical and cognitive health.
Addresses the understanding and treatment of maternal anxiety and depression. Across a full spectrum of professions, maternal mental health difficulties are rightfully garnering increasing attention.
Grief is the natural response to loss. It’s complex, time-varying and multifaceted. Everyone grieves in their own way, but there are commonalities. Grief is permanent after someone close dies, finding a place in the life of a bereaved person.
Even in this secular age, more than eight in ten people worldwide identify with a religious group (Pew Research Center, 2010), and more than nine in ten Americans profess belief in God or a higher power (Gallup Poll, 2011).
Dr. Alexandra Hamlet, a Clinical Psychologist with the Child Mind Institute in New York, discusses the current research and the current challenges facing young people who are members of the LGBTQ community. Dr. Hamlet shares the best resources and tools for helping to meet these challenges.
Although several evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, logistical and stigma-related barriers often deter individuals with PTSD from accessing these treatments.
Only 31% of children suffering from anxiety and related disorders currently receive evidence-based treatment.
Evidence-based treatments for anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder all rely on the application of exposure to alleviate symptoms.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a major public health challenge made increasingly more significant as Service Members return from recent conflicts in the Middle East.
Despite the debate in the medical community surrounding PANS (Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome), therapists specializing in child anxiety, OCD and tics will encounter families and children trying to determine if PANS is part of the clinical picture.
This workshop covers what is known about the etiology and symptoms of IBS, how IBS patients present in clinical practice, IBS in the context of co-morbid panic and agoraphobia and/or social anxiety disorder, formulating appropriate treatment goals and basic cognitive and behavioral strategies for
This webinar focuses on how to develop a cover letter that helps you market your skills for the next steps of your professional career.
This webinar will focus on how to develop personal statements that help you stand out as a candidate for your next steps as an early career professional (ECP).
In this webinar, Dr. Smoller describes the current status of psychiatric genetic research with a focus on depressive and anxiety disorders. Dr. Smoller reviews implications of this work for clinical practice, including the prospects and limitations of genetic or pharmacogenetic testing.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most effective treatments for PTSD currently available.
This webinar focuses on how to develop a professional curriculum vitae, and biosketch for each stage of your career.
Moral injury is a relatively nascent construct intended to capture reactions to events that involve the violation of service members’ and veterans’ deeply held moral beliefs.
This webinar will present a review of evidence of early diagnosis and treatment of childhood disorders. A review of instruments for diagnosis as well as empirically-based treatments for early age presentation of symptoms will be offered.
This webinar provides information on the conceptualization and treatment of selective mutism (SM) across development. SM has received growing interest and attention in the last decade, resulting in improved and more accessible treatments.
School and academic based anxiety is a debilitating problem for many children. Exposure-based treatments are highly effective in alleviating school and academic anxiety, but there also exist several important cognitive aspects that warrant specific attention in treatment.
ADAA is excited to announce a collaborative partnership with the National Council for Behavioral Health in the presentation of an important free webinar focused on older adults and mental illness.
Free webinar. Applying to graduate school can be both an exciting an overwhelming experience.
Cost for all participants: $35.00
ADAA is proud to collaborate with the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy to co-present this webinar as part of a three-part webinar series.
Psychotropic medications are some of the most w
In this webinar, Dr. Gorbis will provide an overview on how to identify, assess, and diagnose Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).
This webinar will provide insight into common presentations and pitfalls of imposter syndrome, and will suggest strategies for overcoming related impairment.
In this webinar you will learn about different types of technology tools, which are available you as a clinician and to your clients. We will go over different things to consider when selecting mobile apps to recommend to clients, and how to best integrate those tools in a coherent way.
Identified by the World Health Organization as one of the top 10 causes of disease burden worldwide, bipolar disorder is a serious, disabling, and highly recurrent illness that is marked by significant functional impairment.
Professional Webinar Panel Discussion
This professional webinar provides specific, practical tools to integrate evidence-based insomnia and fatigue strategies into your existing evidence based anxiety and depression protocols.
In partnership with the Child Mind Institute ADAA presented a webinar on mindfulness-based interventions from Jill Emanuele, PhD, Senior Director of the Mood Disorders Center and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program at the Child Mind Institute. Dr.
This webinar describes the structure and techniques of an effective behavioral intervention for perinatal depression.
Eating disorders are serious, life-threatening illnesses that impact millions of people every year in the United States. An eating disorder diagnosis can be challenging enough on its own, but many individuals also have other psychological issues that can accompany the eating disorder.
The webinar aims at helping clinicians identify and address family accommodation as it relates to OCD. Case examples – representing both adult and child cases – were used to illustrate the challenges and successes of addressing accommodation.
In this webinar, we focused on these and related specific targets for intervention and illustrated how practitioners can best prescribe exercise to engage these targets and augment their interventions.
Cost for all participants: $35.00
ADAA is proud to collaborate with the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy to co-present this webinar as part of a three-part webinar series.
This two-part webinar series focuses on the transdiagnostic understanding and treatments for youth and conquering negative thinking and behavior including the relevance of neural circuitry.
Cost for all participants: $35.00
ADAA is proud to collaborate with the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy to co-present this webinar as part of a three-part webinar series.
This webinar will touch upon why the older model of funding academic research and building your career as a professor through NIH’s RO1-type general grants, supplementing with pharmaceutical grants during brief hiatus periods, is no longer a viable option for most.
This two-part webinar series focuses on the transdiagnostic understanding and treatments for youth and conquering negative thinking and behavior including the relevance of neural circuitry.
This webinar describes how children typically respond to hurricanes and their aftermath as well as potential vulnerability factors (e.g. prior history of loss) associated with adverse reactions following natural disasters.
This webinar looked at new research in the neurobiology of PTSD, discuss brain regions and neural circuits believed to underlie PTSD, provide further understanding on current approaches to treating PTSD, and educate about other potential new treatment methods. Eligible for 1 CE/ Credit Hour.
The Pew Research Center (2012) estimates that as of 2010 there are 11.2 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Between 2001 and 2011 the number of immigrants who pass through ICE detention per year rose from 204,459 in 2001 to 429,247 in 2011 (National Immigration Forum, 2013).
This presentation focuses on the factors associated with treatment-resistance including a history of child abuse and neglect, prominent anxiety and certain comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions.
Ms. Sobin and Ms. Sachs share insights on the importance of creating an online brand and presence, as well as strategies on how to effectively market your practice on-line.
As therapists we have all experienced the painful difficulty of seeing sufferers in extreme distress and having difficulty functioning, who are refusing to follow through with treatment at any level.
Children and adolescents with anxiety disorders often act out or react with anger to treatment. In particular, the prospect of doing exposure and resisting compulsions or safety behaviors can engender not only fear but also anger, resistance, and defiance.
In working with OCD, the goal of treatment is to help the individual living with uncertainty. By definition, this means that the sufferer decides to accept that their worst fears may come true and to live with such possibilities.
While there is growing support in contemporary society for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBQ+) identities, LGBTQ+ youth continue to experience disproportionate risk for myriad mental and behavioral health outcomes. Disparate health risk among LGBTQ+ youth is linked to stressors
This webinar is not eligible for CE credit. The aim of this webinar is to provide a refresher on the use of apps in clinical practice, first by giving an update on the adoption and use of apps, then by reviewing the risks and benefits associated with using apps in clinical practice, and
There is mounting interest in the use of ketamine and other novel drugs that may produce a rapid onset of antidepressant effects in mood and other neuropsychiatric disorders.
In his efforts to provide empirical evidence for psychoanalysis in the 1950s, Aaron Beck, MD, was instead led to search for alternative explanations for depression. He discovered that distorted, negative thoughts are a primary feature of depression.
Although conducting therapy over video has great similarity to providing office-based services, the new medium does present some special challenges and considerations.There is no doubt that the full range of senses and observation is reduced in the video-conference environment.
This webinar will provide participants with an overview of the key principals of helping our patients via collaborating with and consulting to primary care providers.
This webinar provides a more in-depth presentation on using exposures as experiments to test and modify automatic thoughts, underlying assumptions and core beliefs for the purpose of decreasing social anxiety and building self-confidence.
This webinar discusses cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with a particular focus on how cognitive strategies can be used to maximize gains for complex patients, increase client motivation and willingness to engage in exposure and response prevention, and m
This webinar provides an overview of five evidence-based cognitive-behavioral strategies for the treatment of social anxiety disorder: experiments/exposure; cognitive restructuring; mindful focus/ thought defusion; assertion training; core belief change work.
This webinar discusses CBT for pediatric OCD with a particular focus on involving family members and managing complex symptoms such as comorbid presentations and poor insight/motivation.
This webinar addressed how clinicians can maximize inhibitory learning by incorporating acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) components into exposure and response prevention (ERP).
Individuals seeking therapy for depression often present with features of multiple problems—e.g., bipolar disorder, PTSD, borderline personality—making it difficult for clinicians to determine which treatment protocol is best suited for their depressed patients.
Disability and distress associated with anxiety disorders can make young adults vulnerable to developmental impairments. A normal by-product of increasing responsibility and freedom, increased anxiety is expected throughout the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
Starting a private practice can be overwhelming and anxiety provoking. This webinar seeks to take the mystery out of starting your own practice and provides you the details you need to create a successful practice. What information is necessary to be compliant with health care laws?
This webinar focuses on mindfulness-based strategies in the treatment of GAD and comorbid disorders. Principles and strategies from mindfulness and acceptance-based behavioral therapies have been adapted to develop an acceptance-based behavior therapy for GAD.
Dr. Bell begins the presentation by providing a brief overview of hoarding to highlight the issues to address in treatment. She then focuses on goal-setting and establishing a contract.
This webinar addresses how to help children and teens whose core difficulty appears to be emotion regulation difficulties with or without a primary anxiety or depression diagnosis.
Treatments for bipolar disorder have benefits and risks that should be discussed by patients and their clinicians in the spirit of shared decision-making.
This presentation begins with a review of the most recent International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-3) criteria for behavioral insomnia of childhood (BIC), including discussion of factors that give rise to and maintain the disorder.
In this webinar, jealousy is discussed in terms of evolutionary theory (parental investment model), universal patterns of defense against threat to attachment, core beliefs about self, maladaptive coping (reassurance-seeking, testing, withdrawing, punishing, interrogating, restraining), intoleran
Presented by Aimee Kotrba, PhD.
Presented by Karen Cassiday, PhD, ACT.
Continuing Education credits are not available for this archived webinar.
Neurobiology of Child Abuse and Neglect and Its Treatment Implications (Oct. 14, 2014), presented by Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD
Continuing Education credits are not available for this archived webinar.
Continuing Education credits are not available for this archived webinar.
Continuing Education credits are not available for this archived webinar.
Continuing Education credits are not available for this archived webinar.
Continuing Education credits are not available for this archived webinar.
Continuing Education credits are not available for this archived webinar.