CUCARD events and news
Dr. Jonathan Comer received a $30,000 grant from the Mental Health Initiative (MINT) Foundation to study the feasibility and merits of a novel treatment for anxiety disorders in early childhood (ages 3-7). This treatment, developed in collaboration with Anthony C. Pulicafico, M.A., offers an adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)—a treatment shown to be efficacious in the treatment of other childhood problems—and emphasizes improving the quality of parent-child relations and changing family interaction patterns that serve to maintain child anxiety.
Dr. Sandra Pimentel was named a 2007-2008 Policy Scholar by the New York State Office of Mental Health and awarded a grant for her project: "Disseminating Evidence-Based Treatments for Children: A Microanalysis of Consultation Calls as an Ongoing Training Strategy."
In the effort to disseminate evidence-based psychotherapy interventions for children, an emerging model includes conducting a training workshop in the target intervention for community clinicians followed by consultation conference calls. Calls are hypothesized to provide a learning forum during which clinicians can discuss treatment implementation via training case review with expert consultants. Little is actually known about the consultative process in the transfer of evidence-based knowledge and skills. The overall goal of this project is to conduct a microanalysis of consultation calls as they are being utilized in the Evidence-Based Treatment Dissemination Center (EBTDC), the New York State Office of Mental Health’s (NYS OMH) statewide initiative to disseminate evidence-based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (TF-CBT) for child trauma and CBT for childhood depression.
We are pleased to announce that the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD) has moved to our new office suite. We are now located in Suite 601 on the 6th floor of the Newsweek Building at 1775 Broadway.
We would also like to let you know about new staffing changes at CUCARD. Moira Rynn, MD, joins us as Medical Director of the clinic. Dr. Rynn is an expert in child and adolescent psychiatry, with primary interest in the anxiety and mood disorders. Dr. Rynn will provide expert consultation on issues related to diagnosis and medication. Also, two new therapists who joined our CUCARD team are Jonathan Comer and Anthony Puliafico. Both are postdoctoral fellows with extensive expertise in the treatment of anxiety disorders and disruptive behavioral disorders. Please visit our website (anxietytreatmentnyc.org) to read more about their background.
You may also visit our website to find updated information about our:
Stand Up, Speak Out, Workbook
The Stand Up, Speak Out Workbook is for adolescents ages 13- 18 who are participating in the group treatment outlined in the corresponding Therapist Guide, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Social Phobia in Adolescents. The program is designed to help teens with excessive shyness or social anxiety learn how to cope in social situations. This workbook is designed to augment the treatment and contains educational information, worksheets, tips for problem solving, and at-home exercises. Age-appropriate and engaging, this workbook is easy-to-read and includes space for keeping session notes, as well as forms for tracking progress.
Please click here to order your copy
Dr. Albano's empirically supported treatment for Social Phobia is now
available. Please click here.
Congratulations to Dr. Anne Marie Albano, President of ABCT of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Dr. Albano will begin her presidency in 2007. For a list of past presidents, go to http://www.abct.org/about/?fa=pastPresidents
 Dr. Albano shares her expertise In Shyness and Social Phobia, an APA video. Dr. Anne Marie Albano demonstrates her cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) approach to treating the common issue of shyness and social phobia. Shyness is a relatively benign personality trait inherent in some individuals, whereas social anxiety occurs in most people at different developmental stages. For some people, the experience of shyness or social phobia is continual and so intense that it may interfere with their employment and social life.
In this session, Dr. Albano works with a 24-year-old man with social phobia who is unable to go to college classes or to work. He only goes out if he can drink, a self-defeating coping strategy that often accompanies this disorder.
Dr. Albano completes an assessment of the client and shows the beginning of her treatment approach, including psychological education and an exposure exercise, before providing a tailored homework assignment.
You can go to this link for more information: http://www.apa.org/videos/4310739.html
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