Psychology Department at the University of Central Florida

May, 2012: Using Virtual Reality to Treat Real Fears and Anxiety

Apr, 2012: Shaping the Developmental Course of Positive Affect Systems During Adolescence

Shaping the Developmental Course of Positive Affect Systems During Adolescence: A Focus on Depression and Treatment Innovation.

Psychology Building, Room 106
April 6th from 3-4pm
Followed by a Wine and Cheese reception.

1 CEU Credit is available for licensed mental health professionals.

Presented by Dr. Dana L. McMakin from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, this lecture will address key reward-related circuits that underlie positive emotions and appetitive motivations that undergo major functional and structural change around puberty, which for some youth appears to contribute to increasing problems with emotion and behavior, including depression. Although some changes in these circuits are hormonally triggered, the changes are strengthened or weakened by context and experience (e.g. social) during early puberty. Accordingly, early intervention during this window of neural plasticity carries potential to use experience to shape developing circuits in a positive direction, thus offsetting both short and long term developmental trajectories of depression.

Dr. McMakin will first outline this broad framework, and then present preliminary data regarding the nature of disruptions in positive emotions, appetitive motivations, and reward-related neural underpinnings among youth with depression (e.g. sustainability of positive affective states), the role of positive affective systems in the clinical course of depression among adolescents, and the early stages of developing a treatment module that aims to target key features of these systems.

The UCF Psychology Clinic Advanced Training Services is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The UCF Psychology Clinic Advanced Training Services maintains responsibility of the program.

UCF Psychology Clinic Advanced Clinical Training Services is approved and reports CEUs to CEBroker.com for the following state licensing boards: Florida Board of Psychology, Florida Office of School Psychology, & Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling.

Mar, 2012: Schizophrenia Neurophysiology Colloquium

Jan, 2012: Eating Disorders: Workshop

Title: Eating Disorders: What Every Clinician Needs to Know [click here to register online]

Date: January 20, 2012

Time: 8:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (followed by a reading and book signing from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

Location: UCF FAIRWINDS Alumni Center [click here for map]

TARGET AUDIENCE

This workshop is for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, graduate students, and licensed professional counselors who are involved in treatment of eating disorders in youth and adults.

PROGRAM

This workshop provides an overview of eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and eating disorders not otherwise specified. The role of genes and environment in eating disorders risk will be presented in a user-friendly manner. Ways to assist patients, families, and practitioners with understanding the role of genes and environment, and ways to incorporate this information into your treatment model will be discussed. Two treatment approaches will be presented including a cognitive-behavioral based intervention for binge eating disorder, as well as a cognitive-behavioral-based couple therapy (UCAN: Uniting Couples in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa). Various instructional approaches will be employed including didactic instruction, session-by-session review of treatment protocols, video, role play, and other demonstrations.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this course, the participant should be able to:
1.         Discuss eating disorder symptoms and explain related phenomenology and patterns of co-occurring conditions.
2.         Illustrate the current state of the science regarding genetic and environmental risk factors for eating disorders.
3.         Describe cognitive-behavioral based treatment approaches for binge eating disorder and anorexia nervosa in adults.

Speaker:

Dr. Cynthia Bulik Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, FAED
Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Professor of Nutrition, School of Public Health
Director, UNC Eating Disorders Program

Dr. Cynthia Bulik is the Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is also Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program. A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Bulik has been conducting research and treating individuals with eating disorders since 1982. She received her BA from the University of Notre Dame and her MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She completed internships and post-doctoral fellowships at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, PA. She developed outpatient, partial hospitalization, and inpatient services for eating disorders both in New Zealand and in the United States. Her research includes treatment, laboratory, animal, epidemiological, twin and molecular genetic studies of eating disorders and body weight regulation. She is the Director of the first NIMH-sponsored Post-Doctoral Training Program in Eating Disorders. She has had continuous federal, international, and foundation funding since 1985. Dr. Bulik has written over 400 scientific papers and chapters on eating disorders, and is author of the books Eating Disorders: Detection and Treatment (Dunmore), Runaway Eating: The 8 Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions (Rodale), Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How To Stop (Walker), Abnormal Psychology (Beidel, Bulik, Stanley; Prentice Hall), and The Woman in the Mirror (Walker). Dr. Bulik holds the first endowed professorship in eating disorders in the United States.

Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6

Registration:
Regular registration: $175
Early bird registration: $125
Graduate students: $25

To register online, click here.
To register by mail/email/fax, click here.

Registration is limited to the first 100 participants. Refreshments will be provided.

Complete workshop details, including a complete schedule and workshop outline, can be found here.

For more information, or to join our mailing list to receive updates on future CE workshops, please contact Jean Bagga.

UCF Psychology Clinic Advanced Clinical Training Services is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. UCF Psychology Clinic Advanced Clinical Training Services maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Apr, 2011: Dr. Davis along with colleagues

Mar, 2011: Book coming out.

Mar, 2011: hancock cos researcher

Feb, 2011: highlights for new director