Continuing Education Programs

Continuing education for psychologists is sponsored by the Psychology Department at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center. The Psychology Department at WHASC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. WHASC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Point of contact for the CE Program is Howard Garb. He can be reached at [email protected].

Clinical Science Form

Rising Stars of Clinical Science

Thursday, May 26, 1:30 PM – 2:50 PM

Thomas M. Olino, Temple University (Chair)
Cassie Glenn, University of Rochester
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Boston University
Scott Vrieze, University of Colorado at Boulder
Matthew D. Lerner, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Young investigators represent the future of our discipline, and their research often employs cutting-edge methodologies to inform understanding of psychopathology. In this symposium, four such emerging leaders in the field will present research on an array of topics, including non-suicidal self-injury, the genetics of substance use disorders, development and dissemination of psychological interventions, and social competence.
1.5 CE Credits Offered
 

Dissemination of Psychological Interventions: Local to Global Approaches

Thursday, May 26, 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM

Steven D. Hollon, Vanderbilt University (Chair)
Stacy Frazier, Florida International University
David M. Clark, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
James E. Maddux, George Mason University
Psychological interventions are often developed within research labs and are delivered to individuals in an array of settings. Further, many of these interventions are devised within the United States and other developed nations. This symposium describes efforts to expand the delivery of psychological interventions across a wide range of settings and nations.
1.5 CE Credits Offered
 

Invited Symposium

Establishing Psychometric Expectations for Neurobiological Assessments

Friday, May 27, 10:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Sherryl H. Goodman, Emory University (Co-Chair)
Douglas B. Samuel, Purdue University (Co-Chair)
Greg J. Siegle, University of Pittsburgh
Greg Hajcak, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Christopher J. Patrick, Florida State University
Douglas A. Granger, Arizona State University
Arpana Agrawal, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
From neuroimaging to genetic analysis, emerging neurobiological tools provide previously unimaginable access to brain activity and biological processes. However, these neurobiological measures are not always held to the same psychometric standards as more traditional methods, such as self-report or semi-structured interview. This symposium will begin with Dr. Patrick providing thoughts on the psychometric expectations the field should have for the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity of neurobiological measures, broadly. This will be followed by four speakers who will summarize the current state of knowledge concerning the psychometrics of specific methodologies and outline the research challenges that remain.
1.5 CE Credits Offered
 

SSCP Presidential Address

Treatment Guidelines and ESTs

Friday, May 27, 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

Steven D. Hollon, Vanderbilt University
The empirically supported therapies (ESTs) are at least as efficacious as medications for most nonpsychotic disorders and often more enduring. Nonetheless, the U.S. lags behind the U.K. in providing access to those ESTs. Coming changes in the health care system and the development of evidence-based treatment guidelines should help.
1 CE Credit Offered

SSCP Distinguished Scientist Award Address

Developing and Disseminating Effective Psychological Therapies for Anxiety Disorders:
Science, Economics and Politics

Friday, May 27, 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM

David M. Clark, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
The prospects for people with mental health problems have greatly improved, but in many countries the public doesn’t benefit. This talk shows how effective psychological therapies can be developed from sound psychopathology research and how combining psychology with economics and politics can make them widely available to the public.
1 CE Credit Offered
 

Invited Symposium

Converging Evidence: Impulsivity, Effortful Control, and Disinhibition

Saturday, May 28, 9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University (Chair)
Donald R. Lynam, Purdue University
Cecile D. Ladouceur, University of Pittsburgh
Warren K. Bickel, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
Impulsivity. Effortful Control. Disinhibition. Sensation-Seeking. Self-Control. Risk-Taking. All of these terms – and many others – have been used to describe behaviors that lack forethought, are reactive to stimuli, or reflect the inability to persist toward goals. These tendencies are associated with negative social and occupational outcomes across the life span in a variety of subdisciplines of psychological science. This symposium will feature four experts on broad “impulsivity” from a variety of perspectives and measurements. Speakers will consider those aspects that are similar across terms, in order to share a common language, as well as those unique aspects, to provide clarity and specificity.
1.5 CE Credits Offered
 

Invited Address

Romantic Relationships and Psychopathology

Saturday, May 28, 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM

Susan C. South, Purdue University
Intimate romantic relationships are a key context for the development, exacerbation, and course of mental illness. In the current talk, I will review a program of research demonstrating how romantic-relationship distress is significantly related to personality disorders, depression, alcohol problems, and higher-order domains of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology.
1CE Credit Offered
 

Invited Symposium

Advances in Mapping the Structure of Psychopathology

Saturday, May 28, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM

Deanna M. Barch, Washington University in St. Louis (Chair)
Robert F. Krueger, University of Minnesota
Stewart A. Shankman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Roman Kotov, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
How can we best classify and organize mental disorders into a workable hierarchy? The primary role of any diagnostic system is to provide a valid organization to the universe of psychopathology in a way that is also useful for informing clinical decisions and aggregating research findings. Multiple efforts exist to provide such a structure (e.g., DSM-5, RDoC), with varying degrees of success. This symposium outlines existing efforts to categorize mental illness while highlighting more recent advances in mapping the broad structure of psychopathology.
1.5 CE Credits Offered
 

James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Address

The Development of Psychopathology: Mechanisms, Stigma, and Hope

Saturday, May 28, 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM

Stephen P. Hinshaw, University of California, Berkeley
Easing the burden of mental illness requires the best of basic and applied psychological science via multidisciplinary, multilevel research. I discuss (a) the role of developmental processes in the genesis and maintenance of psychopathology; (b) applications, through longitudinal/mediational investigations, to impulse-control problems and externalizing behavior; (c) the role of intervention research in elucidating relevant pathways; and (d) the still-prevalent stigma related to mental disorders, which must be reduced to generate hope.
1 CE Credit Offered
 

Invited Symposium

State of Empirically-Based Assessment: Conceptual and Modern Measurement Approaches

Saturday, May 28, 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM

Andres De Los Reyes, University of Maryland, College Park (Chair)
John D. Hunsley, University of Ottawa, Canada
Laurie Wakschlag, Northwestern University
Aaron J. Kaat, Northwestern University
Aaron I. Pincus, The Pennsylvania State University (Discussant)
Empirically based therapies have garnered great attention in the past two decades. There has been a second movement toward establishing empirically based assessments. However, this work has gained relatively less attention. This symposium includes presentations that provide conceptual advances in assessment, describe initial methods to demonstrate empirically based assessments, and extend empirically based assessment methods to include modern measurement approaches.
1.5 CE Credits Offered