Article archive / December 1, 2015
Originally published: . Volume 6, No. 12. Source pages: 7.
Dr. Buckner’s Team Presents at Assn of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Dr. Julia Buckner’s team of graduate researchers presented their work at the Annual Convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies held in Chicago, November 12-15. The convention theme was, "Improving Dissemination by Promoting Empirically Supported Principles of Psychopathology and Change."
Louisiana State University graduate students from Dr. Buckner’s Anxiety and Addictive Behaviors Laboratory & Clinic who presented work were Tony Ecker, a 5th year graduate student who is currently completing his clinical internship at the West Haven VA Healthcare System, a Yale University School of Medicine affiliated education and training institution. Also presenting at this year’s convention were Sonia Shah, a 4th year graduate student, and Kim Dean, a 2nd year student.
Mr. Ecker presented, along with Shah and Buckner, for the Symposium, “Targets of Integrated Treatment Approaches for Comorbid Mental Health and Substance Use Problems in Teens and Adults: Findings from Four NIH-Funded Clinical Trials.”
The group presented, “Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Comorbid Cannabis Use and Anxiety Disorders.”
Ecker and Buckner, along with co- authors, were presenters for the Symposium, “Anxiety and Substance Use Disorder Comorbidity across the Translational Model: From Laboratory Discoveries to Clinical Outcomes to Treatment Delivery.” Their work was titled, “Event- specific Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention: The Impact of Social Anxiety.”
Ecker also presented research co- authored with Dr. Buckner, “Cannabis craving during an anxiety-induction challenge among racially diverse cannabis users: The impacts of anxiety sensitivity and coping motives.”
Sonia Shah presented work she co- authored with Buckner, titled “Social Anxiety and Suicide: Tests of the Utility of the Interpersonal- Psychological Theory of Suicide,” for the Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group. Kim Dean, along with co-authors Tony Ecker and Buckner presented, “Frequent Solitary Cannabis Use Mediates the Relationship between Social Anxiety and Cannabis-Related Impairment,” for the poster research of the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group, and its session at the convention.
Keynote speakers for the national conference included psychologist Dr. Scott Lilienfeld, who spoke on premature applications of neuroscience.
Another keynote speaker was journalist/author Robert Whitaker who spoke on evidence for a failed system of care in psychiatry.
Louisiana State University clinical psychology graduate students from Dr. Julia Buckner’s Anxiety and Addictive Behaviors Laboratory and Clinic presented their research at this year’s Annual Convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Tony Ecker (L) with poster research . Photo on right, Tony Ecker with Sonia Shad (C) and Kim Dean. The convention was held in Chicago in November. (Courtesy photos.)
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