Past DeWitt Wallace Institute Events

Lecture Title: "PEDIATRIC DEPRESSION: EVIDENCE-BASED AND EMERGING TREATMENTS INCLUDING KETAMINE" Michael H. Bloch, MD, MS Harris Professor Child Study Center Yale University

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a recommended intervention for the treatment of menopause symptoms by The Menopause Society, NICE, and the International Menopause Society, especially when menopause hormone treatment cannot be used or is not desired. CBT has been used to treat vasomotor symptoms, sleep difficulties, mood and anxiety symptoms, cognitive concerns, and sexual dysfunction. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have also been gaining traction in treating menopause symptoms. This talk reviews the literature on CBT, including MBIs, and provides examples of these treatments in the menopause sphere. The talk also considers treating menopause symptoms in relation to culture, psychosocial stressors, mental health, and aging. 1 CE credit available to WCM Department of Psychiatry full time and voluntary faculty Psychologists, Social Workers and LMHCs, who sign in with their full name, attend the entire lecture and complete a survey which will be emailed following the completion of the lecture.

Free tabling event on campus | Stop by for a free Narcan kit Learn more about opioid overdose intervention and how to use Narcan Led by Jonathan Avery, M.D., the Vice Chair for Addiction Psychiatry and Director of the Program for Substance Use and Stigma of Addiction at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian If you can't attend, visit the program's website to stay connected on future events: https://bit.ly/4bO08wD

Contemporary cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs), such as Barlow’s Unified Protocol as well as third-wave therapies such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) have converged on the avoidance of emotion as a central source of pathological symptoms that maintains suffering across a variety of diagnoses. Exposure to and acceptance of emotional experience has therefore become central to these therapies. Likewise, psychodynamic theory has long held that warded off affects maintain unconscious conflicts that lead to symptoms and suffering. Psychodynamic therapy has been conceived of as a type of exposure therapy for such affects but has not always demonstrated a systematic approach to fostering such exposures. Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is an evidence-based experiential dynamic therapy that offers a systematic approach to fostering exposures to avoided emotions including in patients with chronic and refractory psychopathology, who tend to be especially avoidant of their emotional experience. In this presentation, the theory and evidence for ISTDP will be reviewed. The techniques of ISTDP will be demonstrated through use of video from a recorded treatment of a real patient. The intensive techniques of ISTDP can add to the arsenal of exposure-based approaches and may be especially valuable with complex and chronic patients who are highly emotionally avoidant.