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Past Excellence Summit Presentations

Dr. Judith S. Beck and Dr. Allen R. Miller – CBT to Prevent Suicide
Dr. Beth Darnall – Single-Session Skills-Based Intervention for Empowered Pain Relief
Dr. Christiana Bratiotis – CBT for Hoarding Disorder
Dr. Jesus Salas; Dr. Nimisha Kumar; Saiqa Naz; and Dr. Judith S. Beck (moderator) – Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Clinical Roundtable Discussion
Dr. Ellen Inverso and Tatiana Amador: Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy in Practice: A Lived Experience Conversation

The 2022 panel discussion is free and available to the public:

Dr. Bruce Chorpita; Dr. Mary Fristad; Dr. Jess Shatkin; and Dr. Robert Friedberg (moderator) – Youth Mental Health in 2022: A Discussion About Accountability and Access

Dr. J. Russell Ramsay – CBT for Adult ADHD: Do We Need the “C”?
Dr. W. Edward Craighead – Predictors, Mechanisms, and Maintenance of Change in CBT for MDD
Dr. Emily Holmes – Mental Imagery and Mental Health Science
Dr. Omar Gudiño – Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Dr. Robert Reiser; Dr. Stefanie LoSavio; Dr. Wendy Wild; and Dr. Judith S. Beck (moderator) – A CBT Approach to Working with Trauma

The 2021 panel discussion is free and available to the public:

Dr. Wendy Davis; Dr. Terri Wright; Dr. Katherine K. Kinsey; and Dr. Sofia Chernoff (moderator) – Maternal Mental Health in 2021: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations

Dr. Mauro Galluccio – Scientists meet Diplomats: What do They Say After They Say Hello?
Dr. Allison Harvey – Adapting and Implementing Sleep and Circadian Treatment for Mental Illness and for Community Mental Health Settings
Dr. Kenneth Laidlaw – Age Appropriate CBT for Older People
Dr. Bruce Liese – The 30-year Evolution of CBT for Addictions

For information about the 2020 panel discussion:

Former US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy; Estelle B. Richman; Hugh Hogan; Dr. Jill Bowen; and Dr. Allen R. Miller (moderator) – Understanding the Growing Mental Health Crisis: A Conversation About Access, Advocacy, and Parity

Dr. Zindel Segal – Mindfulness, CBT and the Effective Management of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Dr. Sabine Wilhelm – Technology-Based Advances in Mental Health
Dr. Nikolaos Kazantzis – Enhancing Homework in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Dr. David M. Clark – Realizing the Mass Public Benefit of Psychological Therapies: Lessons from the English IAPT Program
Dr. Aaron T. Beck; Dr. Dilip Jeste; Dr. Paul Grant; Dr. Norman Cotterell; and Dr. Judith S. Beck (moderator) – A Game-Changer: Does Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy Apply to Other Conditions?

Dr. Steven Hollon – Cognitive Therapy With and Without Medications
Dr. Robert Friedberg – Stepping Through the Curiosity Door: Engaging Young Patients Through Fun Experiential CBT Procedures
Dr. Paul Salkovskis – From the Worried Sick to the Worried Well; Developing and Extending CBT Treatment for Health Anxiety
Dr. Greg Siegle – Neuroscience of Cognitive Therapy for Depression
Dr. Aaron T. Beck; Dr. Arthur C. Evans; Dr. Allen R. Miller; Dr. Vicki Gluhoski; and Dr. Judith S. Beck (moderator) – Dissemination and Implementation of CBT

Dr. Paul Grant – Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Schizophrenia
Dr. Robert DeRubeis – Mechanisms of Change and Relapse Prevention
Dr. Robert Leahy – Disparaged Emotions: Jealousy, Envy, Boredom, Ambivalence
Dr. Stefan Hofmann – Emotion in Therapy
Dr. David A. Clark – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Dr. Jesse Wright – Computer-Assisted CBT: Can Technology Enhance Treatment Delivery?
Dr. Shannon Wiltsey-Stirman – Implementation: Increasing Access to CBT in “The Real World”
Dr. Torrey Creed – Bringing CBT to Under-Resourced Communities: Creating a CBT Adolescent Inpatient Unit
Dr. Cory Newman – Cognitive Therapy of Substance Use Disorders
Dr. Donna Sudak – Teaching and Supervising CBT
Dr. Aaron T. Beck; Dr. Judith S. Beck; Dr. Daniel David; Dr. Christine Padesky; and Lisa M. Pote, MSW (moderator) – The Future of Cognitive Therapy