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Master Clinician Seminar - Ticketed

Neuroscience

Master Clinician Seminar 2 - Using Neuroscience in the CBT Clinic

Friday, November 15, 2024
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
Location: 308, Level 3, Downtown Marriott
Earn 2 Credit
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Keywords: Neuroscience, CBT, Neurocognitive Therapies
Level of Familiarity: All
Recommended Readings: Siegle, G.J., Ghinassi, F., Thase, M.E. (2007). Neurobehavioral therapies in the 21 century: Summary of an emergingfield and an extended example of Cognitive Control Training for depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 31, 235-262. Doi:10.1007/s10608-006-9118-6,   Compere, L., Siegle, G.J., Riley, E., Lazzaro, S., Strege, M., Pacoe, B., Canovali, G., Barb, S., Huppert, T.,Young, K. (2023). Enhanced efficacy of CBT following augmentation with amygdala rtfMRI neurofeedback in depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 339, 495-501. PMID: 37459978; PMCID: PMC10530481. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.063.,   Young, K.S., Craske, M.G. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Psychological Treatment Action in Depression and Anxiety. Curr Behav Neurosci Rep 5, 13–25 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-018-0137-x,   Field, T.A., Beeson, E. T., Jones, L.K. (2015). The new ABC’s: A practitioner’s guide to neuroscience informed Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 37(3), 206-220.,  
It is clear that brains are involved in psychopathology and recovery, but it’s often hard to understand how to use that information practically with clients in the room. In this seminar we will discuss ways neuroscience can be employed with actual patients, including incorporating neuroscience into psychoeducation and case formulation, integration of contemporary neuroscience-informed treatments as adjuncts to CBT, and incorporating insights from neuroscience into understanding and accommodating neurodivergence.

Outline:
• Using neuroscience principles and vocabulary in psychoeducation and case formulation. This will involve discussion of ways we are understanding emotional reactions, based on brain imaging, which could inform how we do CBT, including lessons from brain scans of individual subjects
• Integration of CBT with contemporary neuroscience-informed treatments that patients often ask about, which are readily available, and which may affect how patients respond to CBT (e.g., ketamine, TMS, TDCS, oxytocin, bio- and neuro-feedback, and vibration)
• Lessons from neuroscience on neurodivergence that could inform CBT – sensory sensitivity, executive difficulties, internal meltdowns, and more.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
  1. List ways to incorporate neuroscience into psychoeducation, particularly regarding interactions of cognition and emotion, and the nature of changing cognitions
  2. Describe how a variety of contemporary neuroscience-based treatments may affect the brain and interact with CBT
  3. Describe how neurodivergence manifests in the brain, particularly with regard to mechanisms addressed in and affected by CBT
  4. Long Term Goals: Be familiar with and conversant in basic neural systems and neuroscience principles which affect recovery in treatment
  5. Long Term Goals: Be familiar with how neuroscience informs ways in which treatments are being developed and combined