David Barlow World CBT Day Presentation: Neuroticism & Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis & Approach to Treatment (DOES NOT OFFER CE CREDIT)

Original Air Date: April 7, 2022

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Please note that the presentations organized for World CBT day are prerecorded sessions that will be made available to registrants on April 7, 2022. They will not offer CE credit.

Abstract:

I will describe an approach to anxiety, depressive, trauma related, and other disorders, now conceptualized as “emotional disorders” because of shared underlying dimensions uncovered by the study of traits or temperaments. Central to this approach is a functional model of emotional disorders describing common factors that account for the development and maintenance of these conditions based largely, but not exclusively, on the temperament of neuroticism. The presentation will conclude with a description and supporting data on a unified transdiagnostic treatment approach for the full range of emotional disorders directly targeting the underlying temperament of neuroticism and associated temperamental characteristics.

About the Presenter:

David H. Barlow graduated from Notre Dame, received his Ph.D. from the University of Vermont, and has published over 650 articles and chapters as well as over 90 books and clinical manuals, mostly in the area of the nature and treatment of emotional disorders and clinical research methodology. The book and manuals have been translated in over 20 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Russian.

He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Brown University and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Currently, he is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Emeritus, and Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University.

Dr. Barlow is the recipient of numerous awards, including the two highest awards in psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology from the American Psychological Association and James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science honoring individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual achievements in applied psychological research. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Vermont and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from William James College, as well as an award in appreciation of outstanding achievements from the General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China. During the 1997/1998 academic year, he was Fritz Redlich Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, in Palo Alto, California and in 2015 was named Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is Past-President of the Society of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. He was a member of the DSM-IV Task Force of the American Psychiatric Association, and his research has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health for over 50 years.