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The CTSA conducted a two-week training during January 2006 with Israeli mental health professionals, including two psychiatrists, two psychologists, and two social workers. The aim of the program was to provide these professionals with skills to become supervisors of new therapists who participate in workshops on prolonged exposure (PE) therapy for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Israeli patients treated with PE are veterans and victims of terror attacks. Preliminary research from the dissemination efforts indicate that patients with severe and chronic PTSD highly benefit from the PE treatment in 10-15 sessions.
Dr Edna B. Foa Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety has received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award. During the month of June 2006 Dr. Foa worked closely with the faculty of the School of Social Work in Haifa University, teaching graduate students and consulting on research projects which examine the effects of traumatic experiences and their treatments.
Dr. Edna B. Foa was quoted as one of the foremost authorities on prolonged-exposure therapy in the cover article of the Psychotherapy Networker journal, January/February 2004.
Dr. Edna B. Foa was featured in the lead article in the New Yorker on January 20, 2004.
Dr. Edna B. Foa recently consulted with NBC’s hit television series, ER, regarding the portrayal of a physician on the show who has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Dr. Edna B. Foa delivered an invited address at the World Congress meeting in Japan, July 20-24, 2004.
Dr Edna B. Foa, Dr. Martin Franklin, and Dr. Jonathan Huppert published an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry: Foa EB, Liebowitz MR, Kozak MJ, Davies S, Campeas R, Franklin ME, Huppert JD, Kjernisted K, Rowan V, Schmidt AB, Simpson HB, Tu X (in press). Treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder by exposure and ritual prevention, clomipramine, and their combination: A randomized, placebo controlled trial.
Dr. Martin Franklin lectured on pediatric anxiety and on the cognitive-behavioral treatment of pediatric OCD at the Sogn Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's conference on Anxiety Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, to be held in Oslo, Norway on May 24-25, 2004.
Dr. Martin Franklin has been named the Research Chair of the Trichotillomania Learning Center's Scientific Advisory Board.
Drs. Deborah A. Roth, Jonathan Huppert, and Edna Foa announce a new, cutting-edge treatment program for social phobia that is informed by the most up-to-date research on the nature of this highly prevalent and impairing disorder. The program, called Comprehensive Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CCBT), consists of 16-20 weekly individual sessions. Patients are first taught a framework for understanding why their social phobia persists over time and are then introduced to tools that can help them break this cycle. Patients use these newly learned tools to systematically confront social situations that they have previously feared or avoided to experience social situations and experience them in more positive ways.The treatment has also been adapted for the substantial minority of social phobia patients who also have depression.
Dr. Jonathan Huppert is currently conducting a series of studies on the nature and modification of cognitive processes involved the maintenance of social anxiety, sponsored by an NIMH K23 career development award.
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