Article archive / December 2017
Originally published: . Volume 8, No. 12. Source pages: 9.
CBT Researchers Present Cutting Edge Studies at National Conference LSU Anxiety & Addictive Behaviors Research Lab
Researchers from the Anxiety & Addictive Behaviors Research Laboratory at Louisiana State University Psychology Department presented work at the 51st Annual Convention of the Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, held in San Diego, November 16–19. The theme for the conference was “Applying CBT in Diverse Contexts.”
Dr. Julia Buckner, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training for the Department, is also the Director of the LSU laboratory. Buckner and her students presented several studies in their research program of work.
At the November conference Dr. Buckner participated in the Symposium “Underlying Risk Factors of Addictions and Their Implication for Treatment,” discussing the “Association Between Anxiety Symptoms and Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Adolescents.”
Dr. Buckner and her doctoral student, Ms. Kimberlye E. Dean, along with Alfiee Breland- Noble, PhD from Georgetown University Medical Center, presented results from their study, “Social Anxiety Among Black Students: The Synergistic Role of Perceived Discrimination and Ethnic Identity.”
Another of Buckner’s students, Ms. Katherine Walukevich presented results from her and Buckner’s study, “Event-Specific Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention for a High- Risk Drinking Holiday.”
Dean, Walukevich, and Buckner presented work earlier this year at the conference of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, held in San Francisco, with the theme, “On the Cutting Edge of Wellness: Behavioral Medicine and Its Application to Anxiety and Depressive Disorders.”
Ms. Dean presented “The Impact of a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor on Willingness to Seek Treatment among Black Students.” The work was co-authored with Dr. Buckner.
Ms. Walukevich presented “The Impact of Difficulties of Emotion Regulation and Coping Motivated Cannabis Use on Cessation Problems Among Dually Diagnosed Outpatients: Serial Mediator Analyses.” Co-authors included Michael Zvolesky from the University of Houston and Dr. Buckner.
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