Adult Psychopathology Institute
Program Details:
July 10 - 12, 2013
PSY 390
The Adult Psychopathology Institute will be held at the Joel and Linda Abromson Community Education Center on USM's Portland Campus. Presentations are held in the 500 seat, climate-controlled Hannaford Lecture Hall. The institutes are led by USM Psychology Professor William Gayton, Ph.D. During the past 20 years, Professor Gayton has been instrumental in the creation, promotion, and execution of these intense and fascinating educational programs.
The institutes consist of three-day intensive classes (Wednesday-Friday) for college students seeking academic credit or for community professionals seeking certification and professional development opportunities. The institutes offer CEU's for teachers requiring re-certification, as well as for participants seeking Board of Psychology or Social Work CEU's.
The educational focus of these unique programs is to bring together a tremendous team of academic experts to facilitate a discussion of theory and practice. The institutes are intended to appeal to mental health practitioners, health care professionals, physicians, physical therapists, nursing students, psychologists, counselors, social workers, human service workers, coaches, athletic directors, and athletes.
Open to all majors, no prerequisites.
Schedule:
Wednesday, July 10
- Registration and Check-in: 8:00-9:00am
- Introduction and Welcome: 9:15-9:30am
William Gayton, Ph.D., University of Southern Maine
Timothy J. Thornton, USM Summer
- Morning Session: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Psychotherapeutic and Diagnostic Fads and Fallacies: Challenges to Scientific Clinical Psychology
Scott Lilienfeld, Ph.D., Emory University
- Lunch, Woodbury Campus Center: 12:00pm-1:00pm
- Afternoon Sessions: 1:00pm-3:30pm
- Cyber Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Practice
Gerald P. Koocher, Ph.D., ABPP, Simmons College
Thursday, July 11
- Morning Session: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Understanding and Treating Social Anxiety From a Cognitive Behavioral Perspective
Richard Heimberg, Ph.D., Temple University
- Lunch, Woodbury Campus Center: 12:00pm-1:00pm
- Afternoon Session:1:00pm-3:30pm
- Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction
John Wincze, Ph.D., The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Friday, July 12
- Morning Session: 9:30am-12:00pm
- Positive Psychology & Clinical Practice
Robert Emmons, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
- Lunch, Woodbury Campus Center: 12:00pm-1:00pm
- Afternoon Session: 1:00pm-3:30pm
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Clinical Update
Mark Lau, Ph.D., RPsych., Vancouver CBT Centre & University of British Columbia
- Closing Comments: 3:30pm-4:00pm
William F. Gayton, Ph.D., University of Southern Maine
Faculty
Scott Lilienfeld, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1990, where he studied under David Lykken. His primary research interests include the etiology and assessment of personality disorders (e.g. psychopathic personality) and personality traits, conceptual issues in psychiatric classification and diagnosis, the etiology of anxiety disorders, the problem of pseudoscience in clinical psychology. Lilienfeld is founder and editor of the journal Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, a journal dedicated to distinguishing science from pseudoscience in clinical practice. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Psychological Assessment, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review, and he is a consulting editor for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. In addition, he is co-editor, along with Steven Jay Lynn and Jeffrey Lohr, of the book, Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology (Guilford Press) and co-author, along with Drs. James Wook, M Teresa Nezworski, and Howard Garb, of the book What’s Wrong with the Rorschach? Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test (Jossey-Bass), both of which appeared in 2003. Professor Lilienfeld was the recipient of the 1998 David Shakow Award for Early Career Contributions to Clinical Psychology from Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). He served as president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (Section 3 of APA Division 12) from 2001 to 2002.
John Wincze, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of the Men’s Health Center at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and in the Department of Psychology at Brown University. He has had more than 30 years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual problems and has published over 100 research papers, presentations at scientific meetings, book chapters, and books in the area of sexual behavior. He has been invited as a visiting scholar to lecture throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Europe on the topic of sexual dysfunction. He has served as the Head of the Psychology Licensing Board in the State of Rhode Island for a number of years and he is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sex Research.
Richard Heimberg received his PhD from Florida State University in 1977. He is currently Distiniguished Faculty Fellow and Director of the Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple University. He is Past President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and Past Editor of its flagship journal Behavior Therapy. He is President-Elect of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Heimberg is probably best known for his work on the development and evaluation of cognitive-behavioral treatments for social anxiety and other anxiety disorders, and he has published 330 papers on these and related topics. He is co-editor/co-author of 11 books including:
- Social Phobia: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment
- Managing Social Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, 2nd edition
- Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Phobia: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Strategies
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Advances in Research and Practice
- Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process For New Practitioners, 2nd edition and
- Improving Outcomes and Preventing Relapse in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dr. Heimberg’s work has been supported by several NIMH grants and industry. His work has also been recognized in several other ways. For example, he was named one of the eight most influential researchers in anxiety in a 2001 survey of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. In 2001, he was also the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy’s A.T. Beck Award for Significant and Enduring Contribution to Cognitive Therapy. In 2005, he received awards from Temple University (Paul Eberman Award for Outstanding Faculty Research) and Florida State University (Doctoral Graduate of Distinction in Clinical Psychology). In 2006, he was named the Outstanding Mentor by the the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy based on his work with over 50 doctoral students in clinical psychology.
Gerald P. Koocher, PhD serves as Professor of Psychology and Associate Provost at Simmons College in Boston. He previously served as Chief of Psychology at Boston's Children's Hospital and Judge Baker Children's Center, and Executive Director of the Linda Pollin Institute at Harvard Medical School. He remains a Senior Associate in Psychology at Children’s Hospital and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
Currently Editor of the journal Ethics & Behavior, Dr. Koocher previously served as Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and The Clinical Psychologist. He has published more than 240articles and book chapters and authored or edited 14 books including Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions, the Psychologists’ Desk Reference, and The Parent’s Guide to Psychological First Aid .
Elected as a Fellow of twelve divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Koocher earned five specialty diplomas from the American Board of Professional Psychology (Clinical, Clinical Child /Adolescent, Family, Forensic, and Health Psychology). He holds active psychology licenses in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Active in professional affairs, Dr. Koocher served as President of the Massachusetts and New England Psychological Association, and four APA divisions (Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Children, Youth, and Family Services, and Pediatric Psychology). He served as President of the APA (2006) and currently serves as a Trustee of the American Psychological Foundation and APA Insurance Trust.
Mark A. Lau PhD, R Psych, received his PhD from McGill University in 1995. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, a registered clinical psychologist in private practice at the Vancouver CBT Centre, and a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Lau has 17 years experience with both mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. He has provided leadership in developing models of mental health care delivery including innovative ways of delivering MBCT & CBT; clinical services to individuals and groups; conducted research and provided research consultation; and leadership in training and education including providing single and multi-day professional trainings nationally and internationally. Dr. Lau’s research interests include investigating the mechanisms underlying MBCT’s effectiveness, the development and validation of the Toronto Mindfulness Scale, and evaluating effective methods of disseminating MBCT and CBT including eTherapy. The Toronto Mindfulness Scale, used to investigate the mechanisms underlying mindfulness based interventions, is now in use in research laboratories around the world including in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Korea and South Africa and has been translated into several languages including Arabic, Chinese, Portugese, and Spanish. He has published many articles and book chapters on MBCT and presented his research findings at numerous international conferences. Dr. Lau is an Associate Editor of the journal Mindfulness and he has co-edited the Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions (2010). He has been awarded the Scientist-Practitioner Award from the British Columbia Psychological Association and the Excellence in Continuing Mental Health Education Award from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. http://www.vancouvercbt.ca/dr_lau.html
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis where he has taught since 1988. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign, and his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of nearly 150 original publications in peer‑reviewed journals or chapters and has written or edited five books, including The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns (Guilford Press), The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford University Press), Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton-Mifflin) and his newest Gratitude Works! (Jossey-Bass). A leader in the positive psychology movement, Dr. Emmons is founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology. He is Past-President of the American Psychological Association’s Division 36, The Psychology of Religion. His research focuses on personal goals and purpose, spirituality, the psychology of gratitude and thankfulness, and subjective well‑being. Dr. Emmons has received research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the John M. Templeton Foundation, and the National Institute for Disability Research and Rehabilitation. His research has been featured in dozens of popular media outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, Time, NPR, PBS, Consumer Reports, and Reader’s Digest. He lives with his wife Yvonne and their two sons, Adam and Garrett, in Davis, California. Robert is a proud graduate of Newtown, CT High School.
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