Panel Discussions
Treatment - CBT
Elizabeth R. Halliday, M.S.
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
Jill Ehrenreich-May, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
Stefan G. Hofmann, Ph.D.
Professor
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Jessica Schleider, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York
Monnica T. Williams, ABPP, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, clinical psychologist
University of Ottawa
Tolland, Connecticut
Allison G. Harvey, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
BERKELEY, California
Aaron J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Despite the proven efficacy of “standard” cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), this approach has recognized clinical limitations and poses challenges for wide-spread implementation. Even with the field’s efforts and progress in reaching individuals and increasing access to evidence-based care, and in improving the quality and breadth of CBT manuals and techniques, the mental health crisis in the United States continues to intensify. In light of the pandemic and increased attention to the complicated, contextual factors affecting clients in need of services (e.g., trauma, systemic inequity, financial strain, political and climate concerns, etc.), this panel will discuss how the reality of effective, personalized treatment may be more contextually- or culturally-specific, transdiagnostic or transtheoretical than CBT traditionally defines itself to be. The panel aims to discuss the potential clinical, research, and public health benefits of a paradigm shift to alternative frameworks of evidence-based psychotherapy. Expert panelists will present their innovative visions for the future of intervention and treatment research and discuss how these innovative approaches to psychotherapy may increase client reach, retention, and psychotherapy effectiveness. We explore how an emphasis on these alternative frameworks to psychotherapy could 1) foster a more flexible, responsive, and personalized approach compared to traditional CBT; 2) affect the future of psychotherapy research; and 3) cultivate collaboration among stakeholders, streamline implementation and increase the scalability of interventions.