Monday, July 27, 2009  (8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.)

Networking Event, PS 450 Restaurant and Lounge, Park Avenue South @ 30th Street

Over 180 professionals and students attended our first networking event on April 6, 2009.  We are hosting a second event for New York City area mental health professionals to connect, share and learn from others interested in CBT and evidence-based practice.  Established professionals, early career professionals, and students from all applied, research and academic settings are invited to attend.  Door Charge of $15 for professionals ($10 members) and $10 for students ($5 student members).  Cash bar.

Please RSVP to cbtnewyork@gmail.com

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (Doors open at 5:30 p.m., Lecture begins at 7:00 p.m.)

“Treating Treatment-Resistant Anxiety” by Dr. Robert Leahy, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, Room C201 - C203

This presentation will review how to use a meta-cognitive and meta-emotional model, as well as acceptance and “cognitive-surrender” models, to overcome treatment impasses through the following: 1) Identify and modify the patient’s theory of mind and anxiety ; 2) Identify and modify the patient’s emotional schemas; 3) Identify and relinquish safety behaviors that interfere with full exposure; 4) Elicit specific predictions about intrusions and emotions; 5) Use exposure to test predictions; and 6) Plan for relapse.  Wine and refreshments will be served.  Charge is to be determined. 

Robert L. Leahy, Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, has authored and edited 18 books on cognitive therapy and psychological processes and is the President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Past-President of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, Past-President of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical School. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Leahy received the Aaron T. Beck Award for Outstanding Contributions in Cognitive Therapy. His most recent popular audience books on anxiety are The Worry Cure and Anxiety Free: Unravel Your Anxiety before it Unravels You. In October he will publish the edited book (with Deborah Sookman), Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving Impasses to Symptom Remission.

Please RSVP to cbtnewyork@gmail.com