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Aaron T. Beck in Discussion with Steve Hollon and Bob Leahy: the past, the future, cognitive restructuring, some of the greats, predictors of relapse, automatic thoughts, and more...
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Solving Fear and Anxiety:  Joseph E. LeDoux, Center for Neural Science, New York University, discusses the mechanisms of learned avoidance. while some fears are innate, it's not the trauma, it's the interaction between the traumatic event and the individual's brain. Can we control inappropriate or excess fear? ...
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Overcoming the Glass Ceiling - Lessons Learned and Lessons to Give: A Conversation With the Trailblazers: Lata McGinn, Michelle Newman, Diane Chambless, Edna Foa, Robin Jarrett, Marsha Linehan, Barbara McCrady, Susan Mineka, Rosemery Nelson-Gray, and Patricia Resick discuss the glass ceiling. Learn from the women who pushed boundaries...
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Bob Leahy’s presidential address explores emotion:  Listen to our emotions; they are at least as important, and insightful, as reason. Find out if worry is emotional avoidance. Learn why Miquel de Unamuno declares, “I weep because weeping avails nothing.”
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Watch Ray DiGiuseppe discuss anger and how important, and ignored, it is. To Ray DiGiuseppe, in his presidential address, discusses anger and how important, and ignored, it is. Watch to learn how anger fits into our diagnostic schemes: is it related to Aggression? Violence? Anxiety?
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CBT has been proven effective in treating PTSD. This session will discuss applying Principles of Evidence-Based Practice to Three Treatments of PTSD with a goal of helping to determine which is most effective: watch at ...
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There’s a huge gulf between what we know about mental health and what we do to help. The state of mental health in America should anger us all. We must galvanize support among professionals, policymakers, legislators, and the general public to demand change. David Shern, president and CEO of Mental Health America, talks about what we can, and should, do from the ...
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Challenges in Disseminating Mindfulness-Based Treatments for Depression in novel settings and new populations. Listen to six leading MBT researchers as they discuss alternate approaches for additional populations. Learn more ...
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Leading researchers and clinicians explore Process of Change in CBT , concentrating on depression and personality disorder: view the session at
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As a service to both members and non-members, ABCT maintains a growing library of videos from several different series for purchase. Please click on the content areas below to learn more.

Webinars

  • Purchase Patricia Resick on "Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: Does Child Sexual or Physical Abuse Make a Difference?" Order here
  • Purchase James D. Herbert on "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Radically Different yet Remarkably Familiar Approach to Behavior Change." Order here

Podcasts

ABCT makes Podcasts available to visitors of this website to help demonstrate clinical techniques and to illustrate behavioral and cognitive therapies. These podcasts can be used to learn more about CBT, and to help teach CBT.

  • Bob Klepac, in his presidential address, admonishes us to adhere “to the strong scientific base and focus on the principles of behavior maintenance and change.,” among other comments celebrating our profession’s ascendancy in the last 50 years… and warning us to stay with our strengths, not go into “areas that are discontinuous with our traditions.”
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  • Leahy’s presidential address.
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  • ABCT has captured 64 sessions from the convention.
    All people who attended the 45th annual ABCT Convention in Toronto as general registrants can take advantage of a special benefit.
    For more information... read more
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  • Aaron T. Beck in Discussion with Steve Hollon and Bob Leahy: the past, the future, cognitive restructuring, some of the greats, predictors of relapse, automatic thoughts, and more. One of the earliest cognitive therapists talks with two of his most devoted students who have each gone on to distinguished contributions to the field in their own rights.
    To see this intimate discussion, click here read more
  • Solving Fear and Anxiety:  Joseph E. LeDoux, Center for Neural Science, New York University, discusses the mechanisms of learned avoidance. while some fears are innate, it's not the trauma, it's the interaction between the traumatic event and the individual's brain. Can we control inappropriate or excess fear? What are the biological elements that convert short-term memory to long-term memory? Can they be harnessed to help in combatting fear?
    Watch video read more
  • Overcoming the Glass Ceiling - Lessons Learned and Lessons to Give: A Conversation With the Trailblazers
    Lata McGinn, Michelle Newman, Diane Chambless, Edna Foa, Robin Jarrett, Marsha Linehan, Barbara McCrady, Susan Mineka, Rosemery Nelson-Gray, and Patricia Resick discuss the glass ceiling. Learn from the women who pushed boundaries as they talk about sexual harassment, timing babies, choosing the right place to work, and why you can call one of our luminaries "doctor honey."
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  • "Deb Hope, in her presidential address, confronts the effect of gender in studies and the real world." Viewers can see Dr. Hope, her slides, or both. Audio, video and the PowerPoint slides are available. Click the icons under "Views" in the upper right to toggle between them. Click on the third icon titled 'contract screen' to see both video and related slides; click on the other two icons to see slides only or Dr. Hope only. Watch Video read more
  • Bob Leahy’s presidential address explores emotion:  Listen to our emotions; they are at least as important, and insightful, as reason. Find out if worry is emotional avoidance. Learn why Miquel de Unamuno declares, “I weep because weeping avails nothing.”
    Give a listen read more
  • Watch Ray DiGiuseppe discuss anger and how important, and ignored, it is. To Ray DiGiuseppe, in his presidential address, discusses anger and how important, and ignored, it is. Watch to learn how anger fits into our diagnostic schemes: is it related to Aggression? Violence? Anxiety?
    Watch Video
  • CBT has been proven effective in treating PTSD. This session will discuss applying Principles of Evidence-Based Practice to Three Treatments of PTSD with a goal of helping to determine which is most effective: watch at
    Watch Video
  • Challenges in Disseminating Mindfulness-Based Treatments for Depression in novel settings and new populations. Listen to six leading MBT researchers as they discuss alternate approaches for additional populations. Learn more at
    Watch Video
  • Leading researchers and clinicians explore Process of Change in CBT, concentrating on depression and personality disorder: view the session at
    Watch Video
  • Steven C. Hayes discusses the Roots of Compassion through the prism of ACT. He talks about happiness, dehumanization, judgment, barriers to compassion. Follow Hayes’ remarkably personal trajectory from pain to compassion at
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  • Miss the convention in Orlando last year? We captured a number of symposia, panel discussions, even the special session on getting into graduate school and an internship program.
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  • There’s a huge gulf between what we know about mental health and what we do to help. The state of mental health in America should anger us all. We must galvanize support among professionals, policymakers, legislators, and the general public to demand change. David Shern, president and CEO of Mental Health America, talks about what we can, and should, do from the perspective of 30 years of distinguished service in mental health services research and system reform.
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  • We know that CBT reduces anxiety in Caucasian children. We know that Latino youth are at greater risk for anxiety than their Caucasian counterparts. We don’t know CBT’s effects on Latino youth anxiety. Let’s find out more. Web Cast: Anxiety in Latino Youth: Prevalence, Expression, and Socio-Cultural Influences.
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  • Web Cast: Sheila Rauch leads a symposium on the Treatment of Returning Active Duty Troops and Veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq Speakers include Sheila Rauch, Kendall Wilkins, Erin Defever, Jennifer Lambert, and David Riggs.
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  • Web Cast: Ken Weingardt leads a panel in discussing how flexible training models, including web-based training, improves learning outcomes. Who's Online Now? New Approaches to Using the Internet to Help Train and Retrain Therapists in CBT
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  • Anne Marie Albano explains how to get involved with ABCT. Collaborations happen at ABCT, from students to presidents.
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  • Ray DiGiuseppe explains why he got involved at ABCT: as a clinician, he saw that ABCT was the place that had the data.
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  • Web Cast: Kim T. Mueser: Advances in Psychiatric Rehabilitation
    There have been tremendous advances in psychiatric rehabilitation. Recovery, once narrowly defined along medical terms, has been redefined with personal meaning and functional adaptation. Yet most with SMI still receive inadequate care. Dr. Mueser reviews state of the art treatment for SMI, highlighting emerging practices to address unmet needs, and obstacles – and solutions – to better care for this population. Please click links to watch:
  • We now have a number of streaming pod casts available. These are Clinical Grand Rounds and Clinical Case Conferences featuring some of our field's foremost clinicians.
    Here’s a listing:
  • Web Cast: Presidential Address: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Anxiety Comes of Age - Anne Marie Albano
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  • 20. An excerpt from: Clinical Grand Rounds: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Prevention of Depression. J. Mark G. Williams, University of Oxford. Presented at the ABCT Conference, 2007
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  • Audio Podcasts from past conventions.
    Listen to some of the more important, and more topical, sessions from conventions in Orlando and New York.
    They are all contained here
  • Get involved with ABCT. Find out how:
    Bob Leahy, Anne Marie Albano, Ray DiGiuseppe, Mitch Schare, and Maureen Whittal explain how to get involved with ABCT. Collaborations happen at ABCT, and the data matters…
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    Watch video: Anne Marie Albano read more
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    Watch video: Mitch Schare read more
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  • Social Phobias.
    Deb Beidel discusses Social Phobias and how CBT can help sufferers.
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  • Specific phobias are common in children, but parents are often unsure of when or where to seek treatment. Dr. Thomas Ollendick of Virginia Tech, interviewed here by Dr. Susan White, discusses evidence-based treatment options for childhood phobias, suggestions for parents, and tips for determining if a fear is age-appropriate or indicative of a phobia that requires intervention. He also provides up-to-date information on the state of treatment research in this area for clinicians.
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  • Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Suicide in Children and Adolescents
    Click here to learn how identify the signs that your child might be considering suicide or self-injury. There are ways to see who is most vulnerable; and strategies to help.
    See Dr. Prinstein podcast see podcast

ABCT Archive Videos

Each video listed below captures an exclusive, comprehensive interview with many of the pioneers in the field of cognitive and behavioral practice and research. Please click on the links below for a synopsis of each interview as well as for purchasing information.

Clinical Grand Rounds

Our Clinical Grand Rounds series feature internationally renowned master clinicians at work solving the most challenging problems therapists encounter. Take advantage of the videos listed below to observe live clinical interviews with mock clients. Treatment conceptualization and implementation are highlighted. Ideally suited for both individual and classroom learning, these 1 ½ hour tapes show the "how-to" that defines good therapy.

Presidential Panels

In order to commemorate its 40th anniversary in 2006, ABCT convened an unprecedented series of presidential panels. Each of these videos captures rare and fascinating exchanges between past presidents of the association as they chronicle the critical issues that have faced ABCT and the field over the years. Please click on each of the links below for a synopsis of each presidential panel as well as for purchasing information.

Clinical Assessment Series

The ABCT Clinical Assessment Series, a unique collaboration between ABCT and Springer Publishing, aims to streamline the lives of both practitioners and researchers... at a substantial discount. The handy yet comprehensive guides listed below make assessment more systematic, convenient, and completely up-to-date. Each guide focuses on key clinical areas and offers organized, readily accessible information on the specifics of individual measures, as well as invaluable comparisons of instruments.

 

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All people who attended the 45th annual ABCT Convention in Toronto as general registrants can take advantage of a special benefit. We captured 64 different sessions at the convention, recording the speakers and their slides. These synched presentations are available, free, to all who registered for the convention. We know you can’t attend everything; you can’t even attend everything in your specialty. To help you get the most out of the convention, attendees can here read more and view any of the captured sessions. You’ll see a panel, and for complete instructions on logging in for the first time, click on “instructions” on the left hand side. Once in, most computers will allow you to stay registered and stay logged in, allowing you to bypass this step. Use the unique number sent to you in a broadcast email.

Those who didn’t attend the convention can take advantage of this, too. We make these sessions available with attractive pricing (even more attractive to members) and you can choose to view one, a series, or the entire collection.

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